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" There are seven windows in the head: two nostrils, two eyes, two ears, and a mouth; so in the heavens there are two favorable stars, two unpropitious, two luminaries, and Mercury alone undecided and indifferent. From which and many other similar phenomena... "
Discourses on Various Subjects: Read Before Literary and Philosophical Societies - Page 180
by Samuel Bailey - 1852 - 276 pages
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Lives of Eminent Persons

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 584 pages
...eyes, two ears, and a mouth ; so in the heavens, as in a ftanfixarfus (or great world), there .ire two favourable stars, two unpropitious, two luminaries,...which it. were tedious to enumerate, we gather that thu number of planets is necessarily seven. Moreover, the satellites are invisible to the naked eye,...
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American Monthly Review, Issues 13-14

American literature - 1833 - 208 pages
...and a mouth ; so in the heavens, as in a macrocosm, there are two favourable stars, too unptopitious, two luminaries, and Mercury alone undecided and indifferent....similar phenomena of nature, such as the seven metals, dte., which it were tedious to enumerate, we gather that the number of planets is necessarily seven....
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The practical astronomer, comprising illustrations of light and colours [&c.].

Thomas Dick - 1845 - 608 pages
...to warm and to nourish it; two nostrils, two eyes, two ears, and a mouth ; so in the heavens, or the great world, there are two favourable stars, two unpropitious,...indifferent. From which and many other similar phenomena in nature, such as the seven metals, &c., we gather that the number of planets is necessarily seven....
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The Practical Astronomer

Thomas Dick - Astronomical instruments - 1845 - 644 pages
...warm and to nourish it ; two nostrils, two eyes, two ears, and a mouth ; so in the heavens, or the great world, there are two favourable stars, two unpropitious,...indifferent. From which and many other similar phenomena in nature, such as the seven metals, &c., we gather that the number of planets is necessarily seven....
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The Complete Works of Thomas Dick, Volume 3

Thomas Dick - Educational sociology - 1850 - 586 pages
...warm, and to nourish it; two nostrils, two eyes, two ears, and a mouth ; so in the heavens, or the great world, there are two favourable stars, two unpropitious,...indifferent. From which, and many other similar phenomena in nature, such as the seven metals, &c-, we gather that the »number of planeta is necessarily sfttn....
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Visitor: Or Monthly Instructor

1851 - 496 pages
...enlighten, warm, and nourish it ; two nostrils, two eyes, two ears, and a mouth ; so in the heavens, or the great world, there are two favourable stars, two unpropitious,...indifferent. From which, and many other similar phenomena in nature, such as the seven metals, we gather that the number of the planets is necessarily seven....
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The Telescope and Microscope

Thomas Dick - Astronomy - 1851 - 202 pages
...enlighten, warm, and nourish it ; two nostrils, two eyes, two ears, and a mouth ; so in the heavens, or the great world, there are two favourable stars, two unpropitious,...indifferent. From which, and many other similar phenomena in nature, such as the seven metals, we gather that the number of the planets is necessarily seven....
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Astronography; Or, Astronomical Geography ...

Emma Willard - Astronomy - 1856 - 230 pages
...unpropitious, Mars and Saturn ; and Mercury, alone, undecided and indifferent. From which, and from many other phenomena of nature, such as the seven metals, &c.,...tedious to enumerate, we gather that the number of the planets is necessarily seven. Moreover, the satellites are invisible to the naked eye, and therefore...
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The American Naturalist, Volume 46

Biology - 1912 - 772 pages
...the head, two nostrils, two eyes, two ears, and a mouth, so in the heavens are there two favorable stars, two unpropitious, two luminaries, and Mercury...similar phenomena of nature, such as the seven metals, etc., which it were tedious to enumerate, we {father (hat the number of planets is necessarily seven....
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The American Naturalist, Volume 46

Biology - 1912 - 772 pages
...head, two nostrils, two eyes, two ears, and a month, so in the heavens are there two favorable stare, two unpropitious, two luminaries, and Mercury alone...similar phenomena of nature, such as the seven metals, etc., which it were tedious to enumerate, we pa t her that the number of planets is necessarily seven....
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