More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the ChristianJ. Murray, 1854 - 259 Seiten |
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... comets . COMETS , or wandering stars , as they have been called , are those celestial bodies most of which appear occasionally only within the limits . of the Solar system . They move in elliptical orbits , in one of the foci of which ...
... comets . COMETS , or wandering stars , as they have been called , are those celestial bodies most of which appear occasionally only within the limits . of the Solar system . They move in elliptical orbits , in one of the foci of which ...
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... comets have passed near the earth , and others may pass still nearer it ; but even if they should not pro- duce ... comet C that has been observed , falls short of the distance DESCRIPTION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM . 33.
... comets have passed near the earth , and others may pass still nearer it ; but even if they should not pro- duce ... comet C that has been observed , falls short of the distance DESCRIPTION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM . 33.
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... comet , now called Encke's Comet , whose period was not above three years and five months , and whose orbit , extending inwards as far as that of Mer- cury , did not reach beyond the orbit of Pallas . Other five comets , whose periods ...
... comet , now called Encke's Comet , whose period was not above three years and five months , and whose orbit , extending inwards as far as that of Mer- cury , did not reach beyond the orbit of Pallas . Other five comets , whose periods ...
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... comets with parallel tails , which after a certain time resumed its single state . M. Damoiseau having predicted that this comet would pass within 18,000 miles of a point in the earth's orbit , the publication of this fact excited such ...
... comets with parallel tails , which after a certain time resumed its single state . M. Damoiseau having predicted that this comet would pass within 18,000 miles of a point in the earth's orbit , the publication of this fact excited such ...
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... comets which he controls , been absolutely fixed in space , our system could have had no connexion with the other systems of the universe . The immense void which separates it from the stars , would have been regarded as the barrier ...
... comets which he controls , been absolutely fixed in space , our system could have had no connexion with the other systems of the universe . The immense void which separates it from the stars , would have been regarded as the barrier ...
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Seite 250 - Though the earth and the heavens were to disappear, there are other worlds which roll afar ; the light of other suns shines upon them ; and the sky which mantles them is garnished with other stars. Is it presumption to say that the moral world extends to these distant and unknown regions ? that they are occupied with people? that the charities of home and of neighbourhood flourish there ? that the praises of God are there lifted up, and his goodness rejoiced in...
Seite 127 - Is it likely, says the Infidel, that God would send his eternal Son to die for the puny occupiers of so insignificant a province in the mighty field of his creation ? Are we the befitting objects of so great and so signal an interposition ? Does not the largeness of that field which astronomy lays open to the view of modern science, throw a suspicion over the truth of the gospel history ; and how shall we reconcile the greatness of that wonderful movement which was made in 'heaven for the redemption...
Seite 15 - I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
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Seite 131 - And then, passing on to the revealed record, we learn that the dynasty of man in the mixed state and character is not the final one; but that there is to be yet another creation, or, more properly, recreation, known theologically as the resurrection, which shall be connected, in its physical components, by bonds of mysterious paternity, with the dynasty which now reigns, and be bound to it mentally by the chain of identity, conscious and actual ; but which, in all that constitutes superiority, shall...
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