Kosmos: A General Survey of Physical Phenomena of the Universe, Volume 2H. Baillière, 1848 |
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Page 45 - The sun ariseth, and they get them away together, and lay them down in their dens. 23 Man goeth forth to his work, and to his labour, until the evening. 24 O LORD, how manifold are thy works ! in wisdom hast thou made them all ; the earth is full of thy riches. 25 So is the great and wide sea also ; wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Page 231 - Humanumque genus communi nomine fovit, Matris, non dominae, ritu, civesque vocavit Quos domuit, nexuque pio longinqua revinxit.
Page 44 - At thy rebuke they flee ; at the voice of thy thunder they are afraid. 8 They go up as high as the hills, and down to the valleys beneath; even unto the place which thou hast appointed for them.
Page 44 - Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters, and maketh the clouds his chariot, and walketh upon the wings of the wind.
Page 487 - Hypothesi mera assumpsisset." 325 (p. 346.)—Quis enim in hoc pulcherrimo templo lampadem hanc in alio vel meliori loco poneret, quam unde totum simul possit illuminare ? Siquidem non inepte quidam lucernam mundi, alii mentem, alii rectorem vocant.
Page 114 - Sakuntala, is a masterly describer of the influence which Nature exercises upon the minds of lovers. Tenderness in the expression of feelings and richness of creative fancy have assigned to him his lofty place among the poets of all nations.
Page 479 - ... que pudiera saber ninguno de los nacidos. Nos parece que seria bien que llevasedes con vos un buen Estrologo, y nos parescia que seria bueno para esto Fray Antonio de Marchena, porque es buen Estrologo, y siempre, nos pareciS que se conformaba con vuestro parecer.
Page 466 - ... certiorem feci, mi suavissime Pomponi, insinuasti. Ex tuis ipse literis colligo, quid senseris. Sensisti autem, tantique rem fecisti, quanti virum summa doctrina insignitum decuit. Quis namque cibus sublimibus prsestari potest ingeniis isto suavior ? quod condimentum gratius ? A me facio conjecturam.
Page 457 - Maestre e compaña e toda otra gente que en ellas son públicamente, que dijesen si tenían dubda alguna que esta tierra no fuese la tierra firme al comienzo de las Indias y fin a quien en estas partes quisiere venir de España por tierra...
Page 446 - Sanscrit edition of his works (The Sus'ruta, or System of Medicine taught by Dhanwantari, and composed by his disciple Sus'ruta, ed. by Sri Madhusudana Gupta, Vol.