First Steps in General Knowledge: The starry heavens

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Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1846
 

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Page 120 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Page 30 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 21 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Page 5 - He telleth the number of the stars; He calleth them all by their names.
Page 21 - The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Page 107 - Tis heat intense to what can there he known; Warmer our poles than is its burning zone. Who there inhabit must have other powers, Juices, and veins, and sense, and life than ours; One moment's cold like their's would pierce the bone, Freeze the heart's blood, and turn us all to stone.
Page 124 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November ; February hath twenty-eight alone ; All the rest have thirty-one ; Except in leap-year, when, in fine, February's days are twenty-nine.
Page 53 - From the polar circles to the poles, the days lengthen into weeks and months, so that at the poles there is but one day and one night in the year. In latitude 67°, the longest day is one month ; in 70°, two months ; in 80°, four months, and at .he poles six months.
Page 102 - Exterior diameter of exterior ring 176,418 miles. Interior ditto 155,272 Exterior diameter of interior ring 151,690 Interior ditto 117,339 Equatorial diameter of the body 79,160 Interval between the planet and interior ring 19,090 Sat.
Page 125 - But it is said that there is an exception to this rule in the case of the sale of real property.

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