 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...beneath the dark side, a solar eclipse of fifteen years in duration, under their shadow, must afford (to our ideas) an inhospitable asylum to animated...theatres of the most striking and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance. (447.) Of Uranus we see nothing but a small round uniformly illuminated disc,... | |
 | 1833 - 618 pages
...beneath the dark side, a solar eclipse of fifteen years in duration, under their shadow, must afford (to our ideas) an inhospitable asylum to animated...their condition from what we see around us, when, perbaps, the very combinations which convey to our minds only images of horror, may be in reality theatres... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...beneath the dark side, a solar eclipse of fifteen years in duration, under their shadow, must afford (to our ideas) an inhospitable asylum to animated...satellites. But we shall do wrong to judge of the fitness or unritness of their condition from what we see around us, when, perhaps, the very combinations which... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1839 - 304 pages
...(to our ideas) an inhospitable abode to animated beings, but ill compensated by the full light of its satellites. But we shall do wrong to judge of the...theatres of the most striking and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance. J * Sir J. Hcrschol. t La Place. i Sir J. Hcrschcl. 346. Saturn is attended... | |
 | Jacques Ozanam - 1840 - 850 pages
...other hand, in the regions beneath the dark side, a solar eclipse of 15 years' duration must afford (to our ideas) an inhospitable asylum to animated...satellites. But we shall do wrong to judge of the 6tne?s or unfitness of their condition from what we see around us, when perhaps the very combinations... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1841 - 486 pages
...(to our ideas) an inhospitable abode to animated beings, but ill compensated by the full light of its satellites. But we shall do wrong to judge of the...theatres of the most striking and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance." Saturn is attended by seven satellites. Although they are bodies of considerable... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1842 - 302 pages
...(to our ideas) an inhospitable abode to animated beings, but ill compensated by the full light of its satellites. But we shall do wrong to judge of the...theatres of the most striking and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance. (Sir J. Herschel.) 256. Saturn is attended by seven satellites. Although bodies... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - Astronomy - 1843 - 604 pages
...beneath the dark side, a solar eclipse of fifteen years in duration, under their shadow, must afford (to our ideas) an inhospitable asylum to animated...theatres of the most striking and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance." 630. Saturn is accompanied by no fewer than seven satellites, of which the... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1843 - 290 pages
...beneath the dark side, a solar eclipse of fifteen years in duration, under their shadow, must afford (to our ideas) an inhospitable asylum to animated...theatres of the most striking and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance." 630. Saturn is accompanied by no fewer than seven satellites, of which the... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1849 - 672 pages
...beneath the dark side, a solar eclipse of fifteen years in duration, under their shadow, must afford (to our ideas) an inhospitable asylum to animated...theatres of the most striking and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance. (523.) Of Uranus we see nothing but a small round uniformly illuminated disc,... | |
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On the other hand, in the regions beneath the dark side, a solar eclipse of fifteen years in duration, under their shadow, must afford (to our ideas) an inhospitable asylum to animated beings, ill compensated by the faint light of the satellites. But... 
