| English literature - 1787 - 690 pages
...aloft as not to annoy them. No objection, fays he, arifcth to that great luminary's being inhabited ; vegetation may obtain there as well as with us. There...and dales, rain and fair weather; and as the light, fo the feafon muft be eternal ; confequcntly it may eafily be conceived to be by far the moil blifsful... | |
| 1787 - 752 pages
...objection, fays he, arifeth them. No objection, fays he, arileth to great luminaries being inhabited. Vegetation may obtain there as well as with us. There...and dales; rain and fair weather ; and as the light, fo the feafon muft be eternal j confequently it may eafily be conceived to be by far the moft blifsful... | |
| English poetry - 1788 - 708 pages
...a'lolt as not to annoy them. No objection, fays he, arifcth to that great luminary's being inhabited, vegetation may obtain there as well as with us. There may be water and dry hnd, hilli hilb and dales, rain and fair weather с and as the lighr, fo the fealon muft be eternal... | |
| Augustus Brevoort Woodward - Sun - 1801 - 96 pages
...inconvenience. On this theory, no ob" jection could arife to the Sun's being inhabited. Vtgt" tation may obtain there, as well as with us. There may "...water and dry land ; hills, and dales ; rain, and fair tf weather. As the light, fo the feafen, muft be eternal ; " and of confequence it may be deemed by... | |
| English literature - 1843 - 640 pages
...to annoy them. No objection," he proceeds to say, " ariseth to that luminary's being inhabited, and vegetation may obtain there as well as with us. There...so the season must be eternal ; consequently it may be easily conceived to be by/far the most blissful habitation of the whole system." ijere then we find... | |
| John Leifchild - Christian life - 1849 - 276 pages
...the inhabitants of the sun from the fiery blaze of the stupendous furnace by which they are inclosed. be water and dry land, hills and dales, rain and fair weather ; and as the light, so the seasons must be eternal ; consequently, it may easily be believed to be the most blissful habitation... | |
| Questions and answers - 1852 - 672 pages
...aloft as not to annoy them. No objection, suys he, ariseth to that great luminary being inhabited ; vegetation may obtain there, as well as with us. There...the most blissful habitation of the whole system." (See the Gentleman's Magazine, 1787, p. 636.) WG Monastic EstaJ>lishments in Scotland (Vol. v., p.... | |
| Medicine - 1854 - 704 pages
...alott as not to annoy them. No objection, ' says he, 'ariseth to this great luminary being inhabited ; vegetation may obtain there as well as with us. There...hills and dales, rain and fair weather ; and as the • My Novel. Bulw«r. 1854.] The Law and the TJutory of Insanity. 91 light, so the season must be... | |
| David Brewster - Astronomy - 1854 - 316 pages
...610, or Gi'lilleulan's Mti>Tii;in( for 1767, p. 636. light and the seasons must be eternal," the " Bun may easily be conceived to be by far the most blissful habitation of the whole system." In less than ten years after this apparently extravagant notion was considered a proof of insanity,... | |
| Henry Charles Carey - Economics - 1858 - 500 pages
...hills and dales, rain and fair weather ; and that, as the light and seasons must be eternal, the sun may easily be conceived to be by far the most blissful habitation of the whole system. In less than ten years after this apparently extravagant notion was considered a proof of insanity,... | |
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