 That the Earth very narrowly escaped a Brush from the Tail of the last Comet, which would have infallibly reduced it to Ashes ; and that the next, which they have calculated for one and thirty Years hence, will probably destroy us.  The British Essayists: Connoisseur - Page 54by Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 392 pages
...That the face of the sun, will, by degrees, be encrusted with its own effluvia, and give no more light to the world. That the earth, very narrowly escaped a brush from the tail of the last comet, which would have infallibly reduced it to ashes; and that the next, which they... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 260 pages
...That the face of the sun will by degrees be encrusted with it's own effluvia, and give no more light to the world. That the earth very narrowly escaped...and that the next, which they have calculated for one and thirty' years hence, will probably destroy us. For, if in it's perihelion it should approach... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 484 pages
...That the face of the sun will by degrees be encrusted with it's own effluvia, and give no more light to the world. That the earth very narrowly escaped...and that the next, which they have calculated for one and thirty years hence, will probably destroy us. For, if in it's perihelion it should approach... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 208 pages
...the face of the sun. ' will by degrees be encrusted with its own effluvia, ' and give no more light to the world. That the ' earth very narrowly escaped...which would have infallibly reduced it to ' ashes; and the next, which they have calculated ' for one-and-thirty years hence, will probably de' stroy us.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 512 pages
...and give no more light to the world. That the earth very narrowly escaped a brush from the tail of the last comet, which would have infallibly reduced...and that the next, which they have calculated for one and thirty years hence, will probably destroy us. For if, in its perihelion, it should approach... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 490 pages
...That the face of the sun, will, by degrees, be encrusted with its own effluvia, and give no more light to the world. That the earth very narrowly escaped a brush from the tail of the last comet, which would have infallibly reduced it to ashes ; and that the next, which... | |
 | Mammon - 1823 - 384 pages
...that the face of the sun will by degrees be incrusted with its own effluvia, and give no more light to the world; that the earth very narrowly escaped a brush from the tail of the last ponjet, which would infallibly have reduced it to ashes; and that the next, which... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1834 - 354 pages
...that the force of the sun, will, by degrees, be encrusted with its own effluvia, and give no mor light to the world ; that the earth very narrowly escaped a brush from the tail of the last cometwhich would have infallibly reduced it to ashes ; and that the next, which they... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 1012 pages
...That the face of the sun will by degrees be encrusted with its own effluvia, and give no more light to the world. That the earth very narrowly escaped a brush from the tail of the last comet, which would have infallibly reduced it to ashes ; and that the next, which... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Chartism - 1850 - 492 pages
...that the face of the sun will, by degrees, be encrusted by its own effluvia, and give no more light to the world ; that the earth very narrowly escaped a brush from the tail of the last comet ; and that the next will probably destroy us." In the island of Balnibarbi it... | |
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