 | Lindley Murray - 1840 - 270 pages
...round !;heir respective suns ; when I still enlarged the idea, and supposed another heaven of SUKS and worlds, rising still above this which we discovered...superior firmament of luminaries, which are planted sit so great a distance, that they may appeur to the inhabitants of the former, as the stars do to... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1842 - 262 pages
...supposed another heaven of suns ami worlds, rising still above this which ' discovered ; and tli «e still enlightened by a superior firmament of luminaries,...may appear to the inhabitants of the former, as the stare do to me : in short, while I piw-sued this thought, I could not but reflect on that little insignificant... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...worlds which were moving round their respective suns — when I still enlarged the idea, and supposed another heaven of suns and worlds rising still above...of the former as the stars do to us — in short, while I pursued this thought, I could not but reflect on that little insignificant figure which I myself... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1849 - 484 pages
...worlds which were moving round their respective . suns ; when I still enlarged• the idea, and supposed another heaven of suns and worlds rising still above...inhabitants of the former as the stars do to us ; in short, while I pursued this thought, I could not but reflect on that little insignificant figure which I myself... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pages
...enlarged the idea, and supposed another heaven of suns and worlds, rising still above this 6 which I discovered ; and these still enlightened by a superior...to the inhabitants of the former as the stars do to me : in short, while I pursued this thought, I could not but reflect on that little in10 significant... | |
 | 1851 - 278 pages
...worlds, which were moving round their respective suns ; when I still enlarged the idea, and supposed another heaven of suns and worlds rising still above...inhabitants of the former as the stars do to us ; in short, while I pursued this thought, I could not but reflect on that little insignificant figure which I myself... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...worlds which were moving round their respective suns — when I still enlarged the idea, and supposed another heaven of suns and worlds rising still above...of the former as the stars do to us — in short, while I pursued this thought, I could not but reflect on that little insignificant figure which I myself... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...worlds which were moving round their respective suns—when I still enlarged the idea, and supposed another heaven of suns and worlds rising still above...to the inhabitants of the former as the stars do to us—in short, while I pursued this thought, I could not but reflect on that little insignificant figure... | |
 | Mary Ann Sturges - 1852 - 58 pages
...planets or worlds moving around their respective suns, and worlds rising still above those which 1 had discovered, and these still enlightened by a superior firmament of luminaries, which are placed at so great a distance that they may appear to the inhabitants of the former as the stars do... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 554 pages
...worlds which were moving round their respective suns; when I still enlarged the idea, and supposed another heaven of suns and worlds rising still above...inhabitants of the former as the stars do to us; in short, while I pursued this thought, I could •not but reflect on that little insignificant figure which... | |
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I considered that infinite host of stars, or, to speak more philosophically, of suns which were then shining upon me, with those innumerable sets of planets or worlds which were moving round their respective suns; when I still enlarged the idea, and supposed... 
