 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1836 - 612 pages
...comets, that it would seem there is scarcely a phenomenon which is not to be ascribed to them. " Hot and cold seasons, tempests, hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic...year a complete catalogue of all the miseries of this Jower world, any one might foresee that a comet would never approach the earth, without finding a part... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1836 - 588 pages
...comets, that it would seem there is scarcely a phenomenon which is not to be ascribed to them. " Hot and cold seasons, tempests, hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic...comet, whatever may be the continent, the kingdom, thetown, or the village so visited. By thus making out for each year a complete catalogue of all the... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1841 - 486 pages
...seasons, tempests, hurricanes, violent hail-storms, great falls of snow, heavy rains, inundations, droughts, famines, thick fogs, flies, grasshoppers,...plague, dysentery, contagious diseases among animals, sickness among cats, volcanic eruptions, and meteors, or shooting stars. These notions are too ridiculous... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1855 - 484 pages
...seasons, tempests, hurricanes, violent hail-storms, great falls of snow, heavy rains, inundations, droughts, famines, thick fogs, flies, grasshoppers,...plague, dysentery, contagious diseases among animals, sickness among cats, volcanic eruptions, and meteors, or shooting stars. These notions are too ridiculous... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1858 - 454 pages
...seasons, tempests, hurricanes, violent hail-storms, great falls of snow, heavy rains, inundations, droughts, famines, thick fogs, flies, grasshoppers,...plague, dysentery, contagious diseases among animals, sickness among cats, volcanic eruptions, and meteors, or shooting stars. These notions are too ridiculous... | |
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... Sydenham, who was an advocate for the influence of comets ; to the dissertations of Lubinietski, &c. Mr. Forster has moreover, 1 ought to say, so extended, in his learned catalogue, the influences of comets, that it would seem there is scarcely a... 