Peale's Popular Compendium of Useful Knowledge, Embracing Science, History, Biography and Industrial Statistics Arranged in the Most Attractive and Instructive Form: Illustrated with a Large Number of Colored Charts and Diagrams, Constituting a Complete Cyclopedia of Reference |
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... JUPITER CERES EARTH The Chaldean shepherds , watching their flocks by night under the open sky , could not fail to become familiar with many of the movements of the heavenly bodies . The Chaldeans in- vented the sun - dial , and also ...
... JUPITER CERES EARTH The Chaldean shepherds , watching their flocks by night under the open sky , could not fail to become familiar with many of the movements of the heavenly bodies . The Chaldeans in- vented the sun - dial , and also ...
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... Jupiter he saw three bright stars , as he considered them , which were invisible to the naked eye . Shortly after , he noticed those stars had changed their relative positions . Being somewhat per- plexed , he waited three days for a ...
... Jupiter he saw three bright stars , as he considered them , which were invisible to the naked eye . Shortly after , he noticed those stars had changed their relative positions . Being somewhat per- plexed , he waited three days for a ...
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... Jupiter and Saturn . In later years a great number were discovered , but we must confine ourselves to the consideration of the principal ones , eight in number , in- cluding our own Earth , Uranus and Neptune completing the list . Of ...
... Jupiter and Saturn . In later years a great number were discovered , but we must confine ourselves to the consideration of the principal ones , eight in number , in- cluding our own Earth , Uranus and Neptune completing the list . Of ...
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... Jupiter four ; Uranus rejoices in the latter number ; Neptune has only one ; no less than eight satellites wait upon ... Jupiter's moons are supposed to be as large as our own moon ; Neptune and Uranus can boast of equally - sized ...
... Jupiter four ; Uranus rejoices in the latter number ; Neptune has only one ; no less than eight satellites wait upon ... Jupiter's moons are supposed to be as large as our own moon ; Neptune and Uranus can boast of equally - sized ...
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... Jupiter himself was well known to the ancients , but his moons were discovered by Fig . 18. Jupiter as shown by the Telescope . Galileo . These moons were found to revolve around Jupiter in times varying from nearly two days to nearly ...
... Jupiter himself was well known to the ancients , but his moons were discovered by Fig . 18. Jupiter as shown by the Telescope . Galileo . These moons were found to revolve around Jupiter in times varying from nearly two days to nearly ...
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Popular passages
Page 484 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 490 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt, for all.
Page 484 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Page 484 - Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His...
Page 523 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 490 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school...
Page 487 - In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people - ah, the people They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone They are neither man nor woman They are neither brute nor human They are Ghouls: And their king it is who tolls; And he rolls, rolls, rolls,...
Page 519 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway : It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Page 487 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows; Yet the ear distinctly tells, In the jangling, And the wrangling, How the danger sinks and swells, By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells Of the bells Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells In the clamor...
Page 490 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.