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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. "
The Planetarium, and Astronomical Calculator ... - Page 30
by Tobias Ostrander - 1834 - 236 pages
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The Monthly correspondent on physical and prognostic astronomy ... &c

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...
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The American Practical Lunarian: And Seaman's Guide ... To which are Annexed ...

Thomas Arnold - Marine insurance - 1822 - 1008 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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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

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,...
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The perennial calendar, and companion to the almanack, revised and ed. [or ...

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...
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The pocket encyclopędia of natural phenomena, compiled principally from the ...

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...
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The Edinburgh encyclopaedia, conducted by D. Brewster, Volume 7

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...
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Peter Parley's Almanac for Old and Young

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...
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The American Journal of Science and Arts

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...
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A History of the earth and animated nature v.2, Volume 2

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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