Fraser's Magazine, Volume 77Longmans, Green, 1868 |
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Page 95
... stars , yet shine with a splendour far inferior to that of Sirius , the famous dog - star . No one can mistake this noble orb as it rises above the southern horizon in our winter months . The vivid colours exhibited by Sirius as it ...
... stars , yet shine with a splendour far inferior to that of Sirius , the famous dog - star . No one can mistake this noble orb as it rises above the southern horizon in our winter months . The vivid colours exhibited by Sirius as it ...
Page 96
... star - the Sirius of red stars as it has been termed . But as we have said , the stars which present distinctly marked colours to the naked eye in our latitudes , are few and far between . It is in the telescope that our ob- servers ...
... star - the Sirius of red stars as it has been termed . But as we have said , the stars which present distinctly marked colours to the naked eye in our latitudes , are few and far between . It is in the telescope that our ob- servers ...
Page 97
... stars is that their colour is not unchangeable . We may begin at once with the brightest of the fixed stars - Sirius . This star was known to the ancients as a red star . To its fiery hue may doubtless be ascribed the peculiar influence ...
... stars is that their colour is not unchangeable . We may begin at once with the brightest of the fixed stars - Sirius . This star was known to the ancients as a red star . To its fiery hue may doubtless be ascribed the peculiar influence ...
Page 98
... stars . By analogy also we may extend a similar interpretation to the colours of stars not bright enough to give a spec- trum which can be satisfactorily examined . Let us take first the brilliant Sirius . This star belongs to the ...
... stars . By analogy also we may extend a similar interpretation to the colours of stars not bright enough to give a spec- trum which can be satisfactorily examined . Let us take first the brilliant Sirius . This star belongs to the ...
Page 99
... stars the hydrogen lines are singularly strong , while the metallic lines are as singularly weak , is yet more to the point . Sirius was a red star . Was it at that time unlike present red stars ? Does it not seem more probable that ...
... stars the hydrogen lines are singularly strong , while the metallic lines are as singularly weak , is yet more to the point . Sirius was a red star . Was it at that time unlike present red stars ? Does it not seem more probable that ...
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Page 342 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind...
Page 342 - ... whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.
Page 493 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
Page 216 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again...
Page 619 - When I mention religion, I mean the Christian religion ; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion ; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
Page 239 - Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, And come with singing unto Zion; And everlasting joy shall be upon their head : They shall obtain gladness and joy ; And sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
Page 347 - The One remains, the many change and pass ; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Page 262 - For it is a principle of universal law, that the natural-born subject of one prince cannot by any act of his own, no, not by swearing allegiance to another, put off or discharge his natural allegiance to the former : for this natural allegiance was intrinsic, and primitive, and antecedent to the other; and cannot be devested without the concurrent act of that prince to whom it was first due.
Page 218 - Listening now to the tide in its broad-flung shipwrecking roar, Now to the scream of a madden'd beach dragg'd down by the wave...
Page 263 - They shall be at liberty to sojourn and reside in all parts whatsoever of said territories, in order to attend to their affairs, and they shall enjoy, to that effect, the same security and protection as natives of the country wherein they reside, on condition of their submitting to the laws and ordinances there prevailing, and particularly to the regulations in force concerning commerce.