| South America - 1825 - 482 pages
...of one hundred and thirty of these light houses of the skies; while throughout the •whole American hemisphere there is not one. If we reflect a moment...made in the physical constitution of the universe, by VOL. 11. No. 6 3D means of these buildings, and of observers stationed in them, shall we doubt of their... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1826 - 918 pages
...upwards of onehundred-and-thirty of these lighthouses of the skies ; while throughout the whole American hemisphere there is not one. If we reflect a moment...made in the physical constitution of the universe, by means of these buildings, and of observers stationed in them, shall we doubt of their usefulness to... | |
| Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1826 - 884 pages
...upwards of onehundred-and-thirty of these lighthouses of the skies ; while throughout the whole American hemisphere there is not one. If we reflect a moment...made in the physical constitution of the universe, by means of these buildings, and of observers stationed in them, shall we doubt of their usefulness to... | |
| History - 1826 - 902 pages
...upwards of onehundred-and-thirty of these lighthouses of the skies ; while throughout the whole American hemisphere there is not one. If we reflect a moment upon the discoveries, which in the lust four centuries have been made in the physical constitution of the universe, by means of these... | |
| Joseph Blunt - History - 1827 - 650 pages
...upwards of one hundred and thirty of these lighthouses of the skies ; while throughout the whole American hemisphere there is not one. If we reflect a moment...usefulness to every nation ? And while scarcely a year passes over our heads without bringing some new astronomical discovery to light, which we must fain... | |
| Joseph Blunt - History - 1827 - 772 pages
...upwards of one hundred and thirty of these lighthouses of the skies ; while throughout the whole American hemisphere there is not one. If we reflect a moment...we doubt of their usefulness to every nation ? And white scarcely a year passes over our heads without bringing some new astronomical discovery to light,... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - Blanc, Mont (France and Italy) - 1828 - 450 pages
...are existing upwards of 130 of these lighthouses of the skies ; while throughout the whole American hemisphere there is not one. If we reflect a moment...usefulness to every nation ? and while scarcely a year passes over our heads without bringing some new astronomical discovery to light, which we must fain... | |
| Presidents - 1841 - 460 pages
...upwards of one hundred and thirty of these light-houses of the skies; while throughout the whole American hemisphere there is not one. If we reflect a moment...usefulness to every nation ? And while scarcely a year passes over our heads without bringing some new astronomical discovery to light, which we must fain... | |
| Edward Currier - Constitutional law - 1841 - 474 pages
...American hemisphere there is not one. If »e reflect a moment upon the discoveries which, in the list four centuries, have been made in the physical constitution...usefulness to every nation ? And while scarcely a year passes over our heads without bringing some new astronomical discovery to light, which we must fain... | |
| M. Sears - Statesmen - 1842 - 586 pages
...upwards of one hundred and thirty of these lighthouses of the skies; while throughout the whole American hemisphere there is not one. If we reflect a moment...usefulness to every nation ? And while scarcely a year passes over our heads without bringing some new astronomical discovery to light, which we must fain... | |
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