 | John Aikin - 1838 - 750 pages
...charm'st in fancy's idle dream, In reason's philosophic page. That very law* which moulds a tear, And hids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the...sphere, And guides the planets in their course. TO A VOICE THAT HAD BEEN LOST.t Aeris et litu.'n:r sum iili:i; Vane, quid afleetas feciemTnihi ponere,... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - 1838 - 1116 pages
...has been beautifully illustrated by a modern poet — " That self-same law which moulds a tear. And bids it trickle from its source ; That law preserves the earth a sphere. And guides the plauets In their course." The mutual attraction between the planets and the sun keeps them from flying... | |
 | William Paley - 1838 - 976 pages
...poetically alluded to by Rogers. In some of his stanzas he says— The very law which moulds a tear, Anil bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, (*) V. What we have seen in the law of the centripetal force, viz. a choice guided by views of utility,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 60 pages
...charm'st in Fancy's idle dream, In Reason's philosophic page. That very law1 which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves...sphere, And guides the planets in their course. TO A VOICE THAT HAD BEEN LOST.2 Vane, quid affectas faciera mihi poneré, pictor ? Aërîs et linguae... | |
 | Maria Hack - 1839 - 464 pages
...but capable of extensive application. Do you not remember, ' That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law ' preserves...a sphere, And guides the planets in their course,' " Some philosophers suppose, that during the state of the earth in which coal was deposited, there... | |
 | Readings - 1839 - 460 pages
...charmst in Fancy's idle dream, In Reason's philosophic page. That very law which moulds a tear 1 , And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves...a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. 1 The law of gravitation. THOMAS CAMPBELL I» the most classical of our living potts; he carries his... | |
 | Jewel - 1839 - 352 pages
...charm'st in Fancy's idle dream, In Reason's philosophic page. That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves...a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. CORONACH, OR FUNERAL SONG. HE is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, Like a summer-dried... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1839 - 422 pages
...been beautifully said, — " The very law which moulds a tear, And makes it trickle from its scarce, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course."* The globular figure of the earth, which is the result of this law, and which may easily be shown to... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 752 pages
...charm'st in fancy's idle dream, In reason's philosophic page. That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves...sphere, And guides the planets in their course. TO A VOICE THAT HAD BEEN LOST.t Vane, quid affectas faciemmihi poneré, pictor 1 Aeris et Ungute aum filia... | |
 | 1841 - 848 pages
...orbits ; having seen that " That self-same law which mould« a tear. And bids it trickle from it« source ; That law preserves the earth a sphere. And guides the planets in their course ;"— having also endeavoured to explain the cause of tit Tides in the Ocean ; I must now bring to... | |
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That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. 
