 Thousands of thousands of suns, multiplied without end, and ranged all around us, at immense distances from each other, attended by ten thousand times ten thousand worlds, all in rapid motion, yet calm, regular, and harmonious, invariably keeping the...  A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With Reflections ... - Seite 399von Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Horace A. Cleveland - 1869 - 610 Seiten
...filled with thousands upon thousands of these suns, attended by ten thousand times ten thousand worlds, all in rapid motion, yet calm, regular, and harmonious,...worlds peopled with myriads of intelligent beings. One would think that this conception, thus extended, would be bold enough to satisfy (she whole enterprise... | |
 | 1875 - 558 Seiten
...filled with thousands upon thousands of those suns, attended by ten thousand times ten thousand worlds, all in rapid motion, yet calm, regular, and harmonious,...worlds peopled with myriads of intelligent beings. One would think that this conception, thus extended, would be bold enough to satisfy the whole enterprise... | |
 | Edward Madeley - 1883 - 768 Seiten
...so adapt them by a corresponding connection, as to form one grand whole ; all the parts of which are in rapid motion, yet calm, regular and harmonious ; invariably keeping the paths prescribed to them : — these planetary orbs, again, being worlds peopled with myriads of intelligent beings formed for... | |
 | Ella Frances Lynch - 1922 - 284 Seiten
...around us at immense distances from each other; attended by ten thousand times ten thousand worlds, all in rapid motion, yet calm, regular and harmonious,...keeping the paths prescribed to them; and these worlds possibly peopled with millions of beings, formed for endless progression towards perfection and happiness.... | |
 | Steven J. Dick - 1984 - 260 Seiten
...upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles (1756), James Ferguson (1710-1776) spoke of other solar systems as "worlds peopled with myriads of intelligent beings,...for endless progression in perfection and felicity." The famous German physicist Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-1777) began his Cosmologische Briefe iiber... | |
 | Michael J. Crowe - 1986 - 708 Seiten
...universe contains: "Thousands of thousands of Suns . . . attended by ten thousand times ten thousand Worlds . . . peopled with myriads of intelligent beings,...for endless progression in perfection and felicity." (pp. 3-5) Ferguson focuses chiefly on the solar system, concerning which he notes that the outer planets... | |
 | Gerrit L. Verschuur - 2003 - 332 Seiten
...around us, at immense distances from each other, attended by ten thousand times ten thousand worlds, all in rapid motion, yet calm, regular, and harmonious, invariably keeping the paths prescribed for them; and these worlds people by myriads of intelligent beings, formed for endless progression... | |
 | William Godwin - 2006 - 646 Seiten
...around us, at immense distances from each other, attended by ten thousand times ten thousand worlds, all in rapid motion, yet calm, regular and harmonious, invariably keeping the paths prescribed them: and these worlds peopled with myriads of intelligent beings, formed for endless progression in... | |
 | 1820 - 618 Seiten
...round us, at immense distances from each other, attended by ten thousand times ten thousand worlds, all in rapid motion, yet calm, regular, and harmonious,...invariably keeping the paths prescribed to them; and theee peopled with myriads of intelligent beings, formed for endless progression in perfection and... | |
 | Samuel Drew - 1820 - 566 Seiten
...round us, at immense distances from each other, attended by ten thousand times ten thousand worlds, all in rapid motion, yet calm, regular, and harmonious, invariably keeping the [milis prescribed to them ; and these peopled with myriads of intelligent beings, formed for endless... | |
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