 | William Henry Seward - 1856 - 418 pages
...of one hundred and thirty of these light-houses in 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... | |
 | Elias Loomis - 1856 - 408 pages
...these light-houses of the skies ; while throughout the whole American hemisphere there is not one. If^J we reflect a moment upon the discoveries which, in...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... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1856 - 884 pages
...upward 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 upon the discoveries which, in the lost four centuries, have been made in the physical constitution of the universe by the means of these... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1858 - 776 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...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... | |
 | Stephen Franks Miller - 1858 - 498 pages
...upward 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...and of observers stationed in them, shall we doubt their usefulness to any nation ? And while scarcely a year passes over our heads without bringing some... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1858 - 772 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...constitution of the universe, by the means of these building?, and of observers stationed in them, shall we doubt of their usefulness to every nation?... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1858 - 774 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 upon the discoveries, which, in the last four centimes, have been made in the physical constitution of the universe, by the means of these buildings,... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - 508 pages
...lighthouses of the skies; while throughout the whole American hemisphere there is not one. If we reflect for a moment upon the discoveries which in the last four...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... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1895 - 982 pages
...American hemisphere there is not one. If wu reflect n, moment upon the discoveries which iu the last tour centuries have been made in the physical constitution of the universe, by the means of these buildings anil of observers stationed in them, shall we doubt of their usefulness to every nation f And while... | |
 | 1876 - 862 pages
...lighthouses of the skies, while throughout the whole American Hemisphere there is not one. If we reflect for a moment upon the discoveries which in the last four...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... | |
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Europe, there are existing upward 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 upon the discoveries, which, in the last four centuries, have been... 
