 | 560 pages
...unseen by man, the remote portion of its orbit, the Comet wheels its ethereal course far beyond the time of the solar system. What region it there visits, or upon what destination it is sent, we are wholly ignorant. After a lapse of years, we perceive it again returning to our system, and tracing... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - Insurance, Marine - 1822 - 1016 pages
...the remote portion of its orbit, the comet wheels its ethereal course far beyond the limits of our system. What region it there visits, or upon what...orbit round the sun, which it had formerly described. It would be a waste of time to detail the various wild and extravagant opinions which have been entertained... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1822 - 440 pages
...the eye. Traversing unseen, by man, the remote portion of its orbit, the comet wheels its ethereal course far beyond the limits of the solar system....there visits, or upon what destination it is sent, we are wholly ignorant of. . After a lapse of years, we perceive it again returning to our system,... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...th« eye. Traversing, unseen by man, the remote portion of ita orbit, the comet wheels its ethereal course far beyond the limits of the solar system....there visits, or upon what destination it is sent, we are wholly ignorant. After a lapse of years, we perceive it again returning to our system, and tracing... | |
 | Thomas Furly Forster - 1827 - 522 pages
...the eye. Traversing, unseen by man, the remote portion of its orbit, the Comet wheels its ethereal course far beyond the limits of the solar system....there visits, or upon what destination it is sent, we are wholly ignorant. After a lapse of years, we perceive it again returning to our system, and tracing... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 828 pages
...the remote portion of its orbit, the comet wheels its ethereal course far beyond the limits of our system. What region it there visits, or upon what...powers of man are unable to discover. After the lapse ef years, we perceive it again returning to our system, and tracing a portion of the same orbit round... | |
 | 1836 - 98 pages
...the eye. Traversing, unseen by man, the remote portion of its orbit, the comet wheels its ethereal course far beyond the limits of the solar system....there visits, or upon what destination it is sent, we are wholly ignorant. After a lapse of years. we perr.eive it again returning to pur system, and... | |
 | 1837 - 868 pages
...of its orbit, the comet wheels its ethereal course far beyond the limits of our system. What regions it there visits, or upon what destination it is sent,...and tracing a portion of the same orbit round the son, which it had formerly described." If it leave the sphere of our sun's attraction must it not of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 674 pages
...the remote portion of its orbit, the comet wheels its ethereal course far beyond the limits of our system. What region it there, visits, or upon what...orbit round the sun, which it had formerly described. It would be a waste of time to detail the various wild and extravagant opinions which have been entertained... | |
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After the lapse of years, we perceive it again returning to our system, and tracing a portion of the same orbit round the sun, which it had formerly described. 