Primary and present state of the solar system, particularly of our own planet [by P. M'Farlane].Grant & Taylor, 1846 - 70 pages |
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Page 35 - Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom placed; Whence true authority in men...
Page 35 - Thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view : Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm ; Others, whose fruit, burnished with golden rind, Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true. If true, here only, and of delicious taste.
Page 15 - It may be millions of millions of years before the earth's retardation may perceptibly affect the apparent motion of the sun ; but still the day will come (if the same Providence which formed the system, should permit it to continue so long) when this cause will entirely change the length of our year and the course of our seasons, and finally stop the earth's motion round the sun altogether. The smallness of the resistance, however small we choose to suppose it, does not allow us to escape this certainty....
Page 68 - ... years for the production of the coal series of Newcastle, with all its rocky strata. A Scottish lake does not shoal at the rate of half a foot in a century; and that country presents a vertical depth of far more than three thousand feet, in the single series of the oldest sandstone.
Page 15 - ... the apparent motion of the sun ; but still the day will come (if the same Providence which formed the system, should permit it to continue so long) when this cause will entirely change the length of our year and the course of our seasons, and finally stop the earth's motion round the sun altogether. The smallness of the resistance, however small we choose to suppose it, does not allow us to escape this certainty. There is a resisting medium; and, therefore, the movements of the solar system cannot...
Page 15 - ... of the resisting medium. Since there is such a retarding force perpetually acting, however slight it be, it must in the end destroy all the celestial motions. It may be millions of millions of years before the earth's retardation may perceptibly affect the apparent motion of the sun ; but still the day will come (if the same Providence which formed the system, should permit it to continue so long) when this cause will entirely change the length of our year and the course of...
Page 51 - The earth throughout doth fill. 6 The heavens by the word of God Did their beginning take ; And by the breathing of His mouth He all their hosts did make. 7 The waters of the seas He brings Together as an heap ; And in storehouses, as it were, He layeth up the deep.
Page 51 - And float on softer air. 4 The liquid element below Was gather'd by his hand ; The rolling seas together flow, And leave the solid land. 5 With herbs and plants...
Page 69 - ... to have taken place : and, let him be reluctant and sceptical to the utmost that he can, he cannot avoid the impression that ages innumerable must have rolled over the world, in the making of this single formation.
Page 15 - ... but still the day will come (if the same Providence which formed the system should permit it to continue so long) when this cause will entirely change the length of our year and the course of our seasons, and finally stop the earth's motion round the sun altogether. The smallness of the resistance, however small we ir ay choose to suppose it, does not allow us to escape this certainty.