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... vast distance means . But we may form some conception of it by such an illustration as this : A ship may leave Liverpool and cross the Atlantic to New York after twenty days ' steady sail ; but it would take that ship , moving ...
... vast distance means . But we may form some conception of it by such an illustration as this : A ship may leave Liverpool and cross the Atlantic to New York after twenty days ' steady sail ; but it would take that ship , moving ...
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... VAST as the solar system appears to us , it forms but a single star system in the stellar world . What we call the fixed stars are sung like our own , each attended by a retinue of THE STELLAR WORLD . 13 The Stellar World,
... VAST as the solar system appears to us , it forms but a single star system in the stellar world . What we call the fixed stars are sung like our own , each attended by a retinue of THE STELLAR WORLD . 13 The Stellar World,
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... vast dimensions of our sun . Stretch outward through his system , from planet to planet , and circum- scribe the whole within the immense circumference of Neptune's orbit . This is but a single unit out of the myriads of similar systems ...
... vast dimensions of our sun . Stretch outward through his system , from planet to planet , and circum- scribe the whole within the immense circumference of Neptune's orbit . This is but a single unit out of the myriads of similar systems ...
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... vast reservoir , into which the supply of food designed for living creatures is thrown ; or , in one word , it is itself the food , in its simple form , of all living creatures . The animal grinds down the fibre and the tissue of the ...
... vast reservoir , into which the supply of food designed for living creatures is thrown ; or , in one word , it is itself the food , in its simple form , of all living creatures . The animal grinds down the fibre and the tissue of the ...
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... vast , A thousand fathoms down ! As fresh in yon horizon dark , As young thy beauties seem , As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam . For , faithful to its sacred page , Heaven still rebuilds thy span , Nor lets the ...
... vast , A thousand fathoms down ! As fresh in yon horizon dark , As young thy beauties seem , As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam . For , faithful to its sacred page , Heaven still rebuilds thy span , Nor lets the ...
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animal Arctic beautiful beneath boat body breath bright burning called candle Captain Captain Crozier carbon carbonic acid century clouds coal coast cold colour cotton covered crew dark Davis Strait deep distance earth England Esquimaux feet fire flame Geyser Grand Master Greenland Gulf Stream hand harpoon hath head heard heat heavens horses hundred hunter Iceland Indian iron island Ivanhoe Jacquard JOSEPH MARIE JACQUARD kayak labours land length light light-house London look manufacture mass miles moon night North Pole o'er ocean once oxygen passed plant Pole R. M. BALLANTYNE reached Rebecca regions rise river rocks round sail seal seemed seen shine ship shore side skin sledge snow Spitzbergen stars stream surface Templestowe thee thou thousand tion town tree turned vapour vast vessel voyage walrus waves whale whole wild wind winter
Popular passages
Page 108 - The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober herd that lowed to meet their young; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school; The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made.
Page 330 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned.
Page 111 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies!
Page 113 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Page 310 - The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed; And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.
Page 114 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind...
Page 111 - Tis now become a history little known, That once we called the pastoral house our own. Short-lived possession ! But the record fair, That memory keeps of all thy kindness there, Still outlives many a storm, that has effaced A thousand other themes less deeply traced.
Page 29 - I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die.
Page 109 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place : Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools who came to scoff remained to pray.
Page 102 - O'er moor and mountain green, O'er the red streamer that heralds the day, Over the cloudlet dim, Over the rainbow's rim, Musical cherub, soar, singing, away ! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be ! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place — Oh, to abide in the desert with thee ! JAMES HOGG.