 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...(to our ideas) an inhospitable asylum to animated beings, ill compensated by the faint light of the satellites. But we shall do wrong to judge of the...striking and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance. (447.) Of Uranus we see nothing but a small round uniformly illuminated disc, without rings, belts,... | |
 | 1833 - 618 pages
...(to our ideas) an inhospitable asylum to animated beings, ill compensated by the faint light of the satellites. But we shall do wrong to judge of the...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
...(to our ideas) an inhospitable asylum to animated beings, ill compensated by the faint light of the 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... | |
 | Mrs. L. H. Tyler - Astronomy - 1837 - 302 pages
...(to our ideas) an inhospitable asylum to animated beings, ill compensated by the faint light of the satellites. But we shall do wrong to judge of the...theatres of the most striking and glorious displays of beneficient contrivance." (265.) When the sun. crosses the equator of Saturn, only the edge of the... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1839 - 306 pages
...situation among the stars. On the other hand, in the region beneath the dark side, a solar eclipse of 15 years in duration, under their shadow, must afford...striking and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance. J * Sir J. Herschel. t La Place. \ Sir J. Herschel. 346. Saturn is attended by seven satellites. Although... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1839 - 504 pages
...situation among the stars. On the other hand, in the region beneath the dark side, a solar eclipse of 15 years in duration, under their shadow, must afford...most striking and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance.J • Sir J. Henckcl. t La Place. * Sir J. Ilcnchcl. 346. Saturn is attended by seven satellites.... | |
 | Jacques Ozanam - 1840 - 850 pages
...ill compensated by the faint light of the satellites. But we shall do wrong to judge of the 6tne?s or unfitness of their condition from what we see around...perhaps the very combinations which convey to our minds images of horror, may be in reality theatres of the most striking and glorious displays of beneficent... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1842 - 302 pages
...What advantage results from this arrangement ? How must the rings appear when seen from the planets ? in duration, under their shadow, must afford (to our...striking and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance. (Sir J. Herschel.) 256. Saturn is attended by seven satellites. Although bodies of considerable size,... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1843 - 316 pages
...beneath the dark side, a solar eclipse of 15 years in duration, under their shadow, must afford (to ov.r ideas) an inhospitable abode to animated beings, but...and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance.* 346. Saturn is attended by seven satellites. Although bodies of considerable size, their great distance... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1843 - 290 pages
...(to our ideas) an inhospitable asylum to animated beings, ill compensated by the faint light of the satellites. But we shall do wrong to judge of the...and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance." 630. Saturn is accompanied by no fewer than seven satellites, of which the most distant is nearly as... | |
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... satellites. But we shall do wrong to judge of the fitness or unfitness of their condition, from what we see around us, when, perhaps, the very combinations which convey to our minds only images of horror, may be in reality theatres of the most striking... 
