...be spherical. 143 This fact has been beautifully illustrated by a modern poet — " That self-same law which moulds a tear. And bids it trickle from...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...

...pity, joy or grief. The sage's and the poet's theme, In every clime — in every age ; Thou charm'st in fancy's idle dream, In reason's philosophic page....moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, TO AN OLD OAK. ROUND thee, alas ! no shadows move, — From thee no sacred murmurs hreathe ! Yet within...

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...or pity, joy or grief. The sage's and the poet's theme, In every clime, in every age; Thou 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 earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their...

...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,...

...! Long should it glitter near my heart, A secret source of pensive pleasure. The little hrilliant, ere it fell, Its lustre caught from Chloe's eye ;...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...

...of action, very simple in themselves, but capable of extensive application. Do you not remember, ' That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle...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...

...a popular poet has very beautifully remarked, that "That very law which moulds a war, A nd bids il trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere. And guides the planets in their coarse." LECT. strongly, as to require a force much greater than their ^N;-x., own weight to separate...

...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...

...the other phenomena ;" until we can show, as it has been beautifully remarked by a popular poet, " That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law presprves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course." In Newton's preface to the Principia...