The Great Comet of 1680: A Study in the History of RationalismPress of the Northfield News, 1916 - 126 síður |
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Síða 62 - When beggars die there are no comets seen ; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
Síða 69 - And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters...
Síða 28 - And the word of the Lord came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou ? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north.
Síða 28 - Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou ? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.
Síða 62 - HUNG be the heavens with black, yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky; And with them scourge the bad revolting stars, That have consented unto Henry's death!
Síða 55 - Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flieth by day...
Síða 11 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Síða 63 - We have had of late several comets, which though I believe appear from natural causes, and of themselves operate not, yet I cannot despise them. They may be warnings from God, as they commonly are forerunners of his animadversions.
Síða 1 - We have in the war between Caesar and Pompey an example of the terrible effects which follow the apparition of a comet. . . . That fearful star, which overthrows the powers of the earth, showed its terrible locks.
Síða 63 - This evening looking out of my chamber window towards the west, I saw a meteor of an obscure bright colour, very much in shape like the blade of a sword, the rest of the skie very serene and cleare. What this may portend God onely knows: but such another phenomenon I remember to have scene in 1640, aboute the Triall of the greate Earle of Strafford, preceeding our bloudy Rebellion.