The Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Volumes 15 à 16

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Royal Astronomical Society of Canada., 1921
List of officers and members for 1909, 1914, 1919, 1931, separately paged are included in v. 2, 8, 13, 25, respectively.

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Page 89 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shall flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 307 - Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
Page 308 - Dryden took occasion to tell her that he had been calculating the child's nativity, and observed with grief that he was born in an evil hour ; for Jupiter, Venus, and the Sun were all under the earth, and the lord of his ascendant afflicted with a hateful square of Mars and Saturn. " If he lives to arrive at his eighth year...
Page 348 - Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?— 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Page 222 - This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse. " Think you this mould of hopes and fears Could find no statelier than his peers In yonder hundred million spheres ? " It spake, moreover in my mind : " Tho' thou wert scatter'd to the wind, Yet is there plenty of the kind.
Page 360 - ... Selborne Street, was elected Secretary of the Branch. Owing to the pressure of business, other papers were taken as read. Eight gentlemen were elected Members of the Society, and twenty-six candidates were proposed. On the Adjustment of Equatoreal Telescopes * . IN submitting the following notes I wish it to be distinctly understood that I do not claim any novelty whatsoever for any of the methods proposed. All books on Astronomy give directions for adjusting telescopes, differing very widely...
Page 13 - First was Chaos and Night, and black Erebus and vast Tartarus; And there was neither Earth, nor Air, nor Heaven: but in the boundless bosoms of Erebus. Night, with her black wings, first produced an aerial egg, From which, at the completed time, sprang forth the lovely Eros, Glittering with golden wings upon his back, like the swift whirlwinds.
Page 316 - June 23, 1922, in connection with the annual meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Page 9 - To show the special favour he enjoyed from heaven, the gods were even represented admitting him into their company and communing with him; and sometimes Thoth, with other deities, taking him by the hand, led him into the presence of the great Triad, or of the presiding divinity, of the temple. He was welcomed with suitable expressions of approbation; and on this, as on other occasions, the sacred tau, or sign of life, was presented to him,—a symbol which, with the sceptre of purity, was usually...
Page 68 - And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

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