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...yet arrived in sight of mortal thing." Young says : — l" How distant some of the nocturnal guru.' So distant (says the sage) 'twere not absurd To doubt,...world, Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. An eye of awe and wonder let us roll, And roll for ever. Who can satiate sight In such a scene, in...

...their distance, has not yet reached our globe, though still destined to come within range of the eye. " How distant some of the nocturnal suns ! So distant,...world ; Though nothing half so rapid as their flight." However marvellous the statement, it is strictly true, that when we gaze upon the heavens, observe...

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...distant (says the sage) 'twere not absurd To doubt, if beams, set out at nature's birth, Are yet arrived at this so foreign world ; Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. An eye of awe and wonder let me roll, And roll for ever : who can satiate sight In such a scene 1 in...

...distant, says the sage, 't were not absurd To doubt, if beams set out at Nature's birth Are yet arrived at this so foreign world; Though nothing half so rapid as their flight!" We are fortunate in having a friend so kind and competent to show us the instruments and explain their...

...distant, says the sage, 'twere not absurd To doubt, if beams set out at Nature's birth Are yet arrived at this so foreign world ; Though nothing half so rapid as their flight." YOUNG. GENERAL NOTES ON THE FIXED STARS. THE VIA LACTEA, OR MILKY WAY. IHE course of the Via Lactea,...

...distant (says the sage) 'twere not absurd To doubt, if -beams, set out at Nature's birth, Are yet arrived at this so foreign world, Though nothing half so rapid as their flight. O let me gaze ! — of gazing there 's no end. O let me think! — thought too is 'wildered here; In...

...poetry but enshrines a sober inference in the statement, " How distant some of the nocturnal suna ! So distant, says the sage, 'twere not absurd To doubt,...this so foreign world ; Though nothing half so rapid aa their flight." It follows necessarily from the distance of the stars that they are themselves suns,...