The old farm house, or Alice Morton's home, and other storiesW.P. Nimmo, 1872 - 127 pages |
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... wonderfully changed ) comes down the mountain's side , and determines to investigate the plains . What a strange scene ! what configurations of the surface ! every part broken up and rugged ! Beside him there is an immense cavity like a ...
... wonderfully changed ) comes down the mountain's side , and determines to investigate the plains . What a strange scene ! what configurations of the surface ! every part broken up and rugged ! Beside him there is an immense cavity like a ...
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... wonderful lightness and buoyancy enables him to bound over rocks , and leap over chasms . He has found out the twin craters Isidorus and Capella ; he has examined the disturbed regions round , the beds of lava ; the various upheavals ...
... wonderful lightness and buoyancy enables him to bound over rocks , and leap over chasms . He has found out the twin craters Isidorus and Capella ; he has examined the disturbed regions round , the beds of lava ; the various upheavals ...
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... , copper , zinc , and barium in the Sun , but it has not been able to detect the faintest appearance of gold or even silver , and this wonderful spectrum is as true in its discoveries as if some A GLIMPSE AT THE SUN . 71.
... , copper , zinc , and barium in the Sun , but it has not been able to detect the faintest appearance of gold or even silver , and this wonderful spectrum is as true in its discoveries as if some A GLIMPSE AT THE SUN . 71.
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... wonderful nights they must be with four moons , instead of one , to enliven the hours of darkness ! The inhabitants of Jupiter ( if there are any ) must have a constant source of interest in watching the eclipses of these moons ...
... wonderful nights they must be with four moons , instead of one , to enliven the hours of darkness ! The inhabitants of Jupiter ( if there are any ) must have a constant source of interest in watching the eclipses of these moons ...
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... wonderful Milky Way , for there the suns are beyond counting , they are like luminous sands ; ' there are no limits to this star zone . ' The Magellanic clouds , ' which are only seen in southern countries , are also formed of swarms of ...
... wonderful Milky Way , for there the suns are beyond counting , they are like luminous sands ; ' there are no limits to this star zone . ' The Magellanic clouds , ' which are only seen in southern countries , are also formed of swarms of ...
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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.