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11 south 15 north 19 west 23 south 30 south 37 north 40 north 9 3 north 9 east 9 north ALDERAMIN Alruccabah body BOÖTES Buckinghamshire Celestial Globe Chara Cheshire China Constellation COR CAROLI Cornwall COUNTRY ditto Dorsetshire Dubhe England 24 England 25 west England Devonshire England Hindostan England Isle England Norfolk England Scotland England Somersetshire England Yorkshire France 19 west France 22 Gloucestershire H. M. O Declin Hampshire head Hertfordshire Ireland Ireland 27 west Italy Kent left foot left hind left knee left shoulder left wing Lincolnshire loins Lower Saxony Lyra MIRACH neck North Pole Star Northamptonshire Orion Oxfordshire PERSEUS planet Pleiade right ascension right elbow right foot right fore right leg right shoulder right wing rump Scotland Scotland 26 west Staffordshire Surrey Sussex Switzerland Taurus thigh Ursa Major Ursa Minor Variation in Degrees Wales 25 Wales 26 west Westphalia Wiltshire Worcestershire
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Page 16 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 7 - All sacrifices do but speed forward that great day, when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
Page 18 - So sung The glorious train ascending : He through heaven, That open'd wide her blazing portals, led To God's eternal house direct the way, A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars...
Page 18 - And fill the assembly with a shining train. A way there is in heaven's expanded plain, Which, when the skies are clear, is seen below, And mortals by the name of " Milky " know. The groundwork is of stars ; through which the road Lies open to the Thunderer's abode.
Page 16 - His shatter'd body to a tomb convey, And o'er the tomb an epitaph devise : " Here he who drove the sun's bright chariot lies ; His father's fiery steeds he could not guide, But in the glorious enterprise he dy'd.
Page 16 - Ericthonius was the first who join'd Four horses for the rapid race design'd, And o'er the dusty wheels presiding sate : The...
Page 17 - PEGASUS was a winged horse, sprung from the blood of Medusa, when Perseus had cut off her head.
Page 9 - The latitude of a star, or planet, is its distance from the ecliptic, north or south, reckoned towards the pole of the ecliptic, on the quadrant of altitude. Some...
Page 16 - Lapithie, a people of Thessaly : and because when attacked they fled with great rapidity, it was supposed they...
Page 10 - The latitiuLe of a star is its distance from the ecliptic, either north or south, counted towards the pole of the ecliptic. Its longitude is its distance from the first point of Aries, reckoned eastward on the ecliptic. The declination of a star is its distance from the equinoctial, north or south, and the greatest declination it can have is 90°.