The old farm house, or Alice Morton's home, and other storiesW.P. Nimmo, 1872 - 127 pages |
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... formed of gas , for ever luminous , or incandescent , and its outer stratum is called the photosphere . The third atmosphere is opaque and cloudy , and doubtless is a great protection to the dark spherical body which forms the solid ...
... formed of gas , for ever luminous , or incandescent , and its outer stratum is called the photosphere . The third atmosphere is opaque and cloudy , and doubtless is a great protection to the dark spherical body which forms the solid ...
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... formed , perhaps , of satellites more numerous than the sands of the sea ; but we can hardly realize such a wondrous phenomenon ! and must be content with what astronomers tell us of the glory . Saturn's moons have been named , Minas ...
... formed , perhaps , of satellites more numerous than the sands of the sea ; but we can hardly realize such a wondrous phenomenon ! and must be content with what astronomers tell us of the glory . Saturn's moons have been named , Minas ...
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... seventy - eight in reality , and the Greeks believed it to resemble the outline of a human figure , so they called it ' Orion ' after a noted hunter . The band , or belt , is formed by the A JOURNEY THROUGH SPACE . 87.
... seventy - eight in reality , and the Greeks believed it to resemble the outline of a human figure , so they called it ' Orion ' after a noted hunter . The band , or belt , is formed by the A JOURNEY THROUGH SPACE . 87.
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... formed of swarms of stars ; the head grows bewildered as it pores over the probable numbers . Our traveller finds it difficult to trace the course of the comets , for while the planets always move from right to left , or from west to ...
... formed of swarms of stars ; the head grows bewildered as it pores over the probable numbers . Our traveller finds it difficult to trace the course of the comets , for while the planets always move from right to left , or from west to ...
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... formed by some repulsive force acting on it from the sun , which may drive particles from the nucleus into space ; these flying off in a great volume , may form the long train that sometimes ac- 90 AN AERIAL VOYAGE .
... formed by some repulsive force acting on it from the sun , which may drive particles from the nucleus into space ; these flying off in a great volume , may form the long train that sometimes ac- 90 AN AERIAL VOYAGE .
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ADELAIDE AUSTEN aërial train Alice atmosphere Aunt Betsy beautiful Bolides Books published bound in cloth boys Bridda bright brother called CHARLES BRUCE cloth extra clouds cold colour comet coming crown 8vo dark earth eight moons eyes Farmer Morton father and Harry feyther fire flowers girl glimpse gold golden golden palace gone to bed Harry Morton Harry's horse heard heart heat heavens Illustrations Ivon IVON'S QUESTION Jesus Jupiter king's palace light looked Lutine Mars moon Moorfields mother never night NIMMO'S Ninette numbers orbs paint passed PETER GRANT planet Pleiades published by William rays red planet Mars RICHARD NEWTON round Saturn screen seemed Sidelle solar system stars Stories sun's surface Swan and Eagle tell things thought Thoughtland thousand Tiny and Bobby trade winds traveller Uranus visible voice watch weary wonderful wood words Young
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Page 127 - Tales of Old English Life ; or, Pictures of the Periods. By WILLIAM FRANCIS COLLIER, LL.D., Author of ' History of English Literature,
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Page 76 - And earnest thoughts within me rise, When I behold afar, Suspended in the evening skies, The shield of that red star. 0 star of strength ! I see thee stand And smile upon my pain ; Thou beckonest with thy mailed hand, And I am strong again. Within my breast there is no light, But the cold light of stars ; I give the first watch of the night To the red planet Mars.
Page 74 - THE night is come, but not too soon ; And sinking silently, All silently, the little moon Drops down behind the sky. There is no light in earth or heaven, But the cold light of stars ; And the first watch of night is given To the red planet Mars.
Page 84 - That fill the haunted chambers of the Night, Like some old poet's rhymes. From the cool cisterns of the midnight air, My spirit drank repose; The fountain of perpetual peace flows there, — From those deep cisterns flows.