More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the ChristianJ. Murray, 1854 - 259 עמודים |
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61 Cygni analogy animal appearance argument astronomers ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS atmosphere believe binary systems bodies celestial centre CHAPTER Christian clouds clusters of stars comets conclude creation creatures diameter discovery distance Divine doctrine double stars Earth England Essay Essayist existence Fcap fixed stars formation Fourth Edition geological German globe heavens History Illustrated inha inhabited intellectual islands Jupiter LADY light and heat London Lord Lord Rosse luminous magnitude Memoirs millions of miles mind moon motion nature nebulæ nebulous matter Neptune Notes objects occupied opinion orbit period philosopher planetary Plates plurality of worlds Portrait Post 8vo primary planets probable race reason regions resolved revolving round right ascension ring Royal 4to Royal 8vo satellites Saturn Second Edition sidereal Sir John Herschel Sir William Herschel Solar system spheres suppose surface telescope theory Third Edition tion Translated truth universe Uranus Venus Vols Woodcuts
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עמוד 250 - Though the earth and the heavens were to disappear, there are other worlds which roll afar ; the light of other suns shines upon them ; and the sky which mantles them is garnished with other stars. Is it presumption to say that the moral world extends to these distant and unknown regions ? that they are occupied with people? that the charities of home and of neighbourhood flourish there ? that the praises of God are there lifted up, and his goodness rejoiced in...
עמוד 127 - Is it likely, says the Infidel, that God would send his eternal Son to die for the puny occupiers of so insignificant a province in the mighty field of his creation ? Are we the befitting objects of so great and so signal an interposition ? Does not the largeness of that field which astronomy lays open to the view of modern science, throw a suspicion over the truth of the gospel history ; and how shall we reconcile the greatness of that wonderful movement which was made in 'heaven for the redemption...
עמוד 15 - I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
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עמוד 101 - The climate of the moon must be very extraordinary : the alternation being that of unmitigated and burning sunshine, fiercer than an equatorial noon, continued for a whole fortnight, and the keenest severity of frost, far exceeding that of our polar winters, for an equal time.
עמוד 131 - And then, passing on to the revealed record, we learn that the dynasty of man in the mixed state and character is not the final one; but that there is to be yet another creation, or, more properly, recreation, known theologically as the resurrection, which shall be connected, in its physical components, by bonds of mysterious paternity, with the dynasty which now reigns, and be bound to it mentally by the chain of identity, conscious and actual ; but which, in all that constitutes superiority, shall...
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