In this boundless field of investigation, human genius has won its most signal victories. Generation after generation has rolled away, age after age has swept silently by; but each has swelled, by its contributions, the stream of discovery. Popular Astronomy, And, The Orbs of Heaven - Página 1por Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1860Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1851 - 650 páginas
...this first solemn night, the consciousness that in the heavens God had declared his glory, the eager desire to comprehend the mysteries that dwell in these...Generation after generation has rolled away, age after nge has swept silently by, but each has swelled by its contribution the stream of discovery. One barrier... | |
| 1852 - 608 páginas
...heavens God had declared his glory — the eager desire to comprehend the mysteries that dwell in those bright orbs, have clung to the descendants of him...has swept silently by, but each has swelled by its contributions the stream of discovery. One barrier after another has given way to the force of intellect... | |
| Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1852 - 312 páginas
...first solemn night — the consciousness that in the heavens God had declared bis glory — the eager desire to comprehend the mysteries that dwell in these...bright orbs, have clung to the descendants of him who iirst watched and wondered, through the long lapse of «* thousand^ne^rs. In this boundless field of... | |
| Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1867 - 362 páginas
...first solemn night — the sonsciousness that in the heavens God had declared his glory — the eager desire to comprehend the mysteries that dwell in these...wondered, through the long lapse of six thousand years. Tn this boundless field of investigation, human geniua has won its most signal victories. — Generation... | |
| 1875 - 252 páginas
...through the long lapse of six thousand years, to the descendants of him who first watched and wondered. In this boundless field of investigation, human genius...has swept silently by ; but each has swelled, by its contributions, the stream of discovery. Mysterious movements have been unravelled ; mighty laws have... | |
| George Lansing Raymond - 1879 - 358 páginas
...through the long lapse of six thousand years, to the descendants of him who first watched and wondered. In this boundless field of investigation, human genius...has swept silently by; but each has swelled, by its contributions, the stream of discovery. Mysterious movements have been unravelled; mighty laws have... | |
| George Lansing Raymond - 1879 - 350 páginas
...through the long lapse of six thousand years, to the descendants of him who first watched and wondered. In this boundless field of investigation, human genius...has swept silently by; but each has swelled, by its contributions, the stream of discovery. Mysterious movements have been unravelled; mighty laws have... | |
| John Swett - 1884 - 404 páginas
...pauses are long, and the voice dwells on the liquid and the long vowel sounds. EXAMPLES. 1. ASTRONOMY. Generation after generation has rolled away, age after age has swept silently ty ; but each has swelled, by its contributions, the stream of discovery. Mysterious movements have... | |
| Phineas Garrett - 1885 - 974 páginas
...this first solemn night, the consciousness that in the heavens God had declared his glory, the eager desire to comprehend the mysteries that dwell in these...rolled away, age after age has swept silently by ; but eaeh has swelled, by its contribution, the stream of discovery. One barrier after another has given... | |
| Phineas Garrett - 1885 - 988 páginas
...this first solemn night, the consciousness that in the heavens God had declared his glory, the eager desire to comprehend the mysteries that dwell in these...years. In this boundless field of investigation, human genins has won its most signal victories. Generation after generation has rolled away, age after age... | |
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