...their enlightened sides, as vast arches spanning the sky from horizon to horizon, and holding an almost invariable situation among the stars. On the other...and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance.' — Pp. 321, 322. Of Neptune not much is to be said, and the interest attached to it is chiefly in...

...beneath the dark side, a solar eclipse of fifteen years in duration, under their shadow, must afford (lo our ideas) an inhospitable asylum to animated beings,...most striking and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance.'—Pp. 321, 322. ' It will naturally be asked how so stupendous an arch, if composed of...

...from horizon to horizon, and holding an almost invariable situation among the stars." And again, " But we shall do wrong to judge of the fitness or unfitness...and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance." — Outlines of Astronomy, p. 321. Du Bartas says : — " I'll rather give a thousand times the lye...

...satellites. But we shall do wrong to judge of the fitness or unfituess of their condition from what we sec around us, when, perhaps, the very combinations which...and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance.'— Pp. 321, 322. Of Neptune not much is to be said, and the interest attached to it is chiefly in the...

...see around u.<, when perhaps the very combinations which only convey images of horror to our minds, may be, in reality, theatres of the most striking and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance." The remarkable phenomenon, however, of a fifteen years' eclipse of the Sun to the regions of Saturn,...

...(to our ideas) an inhospitable abode to animated beings, but ill compensated by the full light of its satellites. But we shall do wrong to judge of the...and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance." Saturn is attended by seven satellites. Althoughthey are bodies of considerable size, their great distance...

...(to our ideas) an inhospitable abode to animated beings, but ill compensated by the full light of its satellites. But we shall do wrong to judge of the...striking and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance. (Sir J. Herschel.) 256. Saturn is attended by eight satellites, one having been recently added to the...

...see around us, when, perhaps, the very combinations which convey to our minds only images of horrors, may be in reality theatres of the most striking and glorious displays of magnificent continuance.' In the place of this passage we have substituted, in the edition of 1851,...

...proceeding, as Sir John Herschel has well remarked, to judge of the fitness or unfitness of such conditions from what we see around us, " when, perhaps, the very...and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance." 1857.] [April, Another satellite, the eighth, discovered in the year 1848, coincidently by Mr. Lassel...

...proceeding, as Sir John Herschel has well remarked, to judge of the fitness or unfitness of such conditions from what we see around us, " when, perhaps, the very...and glorious displays of beneficent contrivance." Another satellite, the eighth, discovered in the year 1 848, coïncidently by Mr. Lassel of Liverpool,...