10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERISCIAN»
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periscian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
periscian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. ...
In every clime we are in a periscian state ; 4 and with our light, our shadow and
darkness walk about us. Our contentments stand upon the tops of pyramids ready
to fall off, and the insecurity of their enjoyments abrupteth our tranquillities.
Sir Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin, 1852
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne
... wherein we must be content with embryon felicitics, and fruitions of doubtful
faces: for the circle of our felicitics makes but short arches. In every clime we are
in a periscian state ; 4 and with our light, our shadow and darkness walk about us
.
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Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Repertorium. A letter to a ...
In every clime we are in a periscian state ; * and with our light, our shadow, and
darkness walk about us. Our contentments stand upon the tops of pyramids ready
to fall off) and the insecurity of their enjoyments abrupteth our tranquillities.
Sir Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin, 1835
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Repertorium. A letter to a friend. Christian morals. Certain ...
In every clime we are in a periscian state ; 4 and with our light, our shadow, and
darkness walk about us. Our contentments stand upon the tops of pyramids ready
to fall off, and the insecurity of their enjoyments abrupteth our tranquillities.
Sir Thomas Browne, Simon Wilkin, 1835
5
On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and ...
SHADOWS. ARE. There are differences between the midday shadows on
account of which some people are called periscian, others amphiscian, and still
others heteroscian. The periscian are those whom we might call "circumumbratile
," ...
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Great books of the Western World
And this is the first of the periscian parallels. For since the sun at the summer
tropic does not set for that parallel, the shadows of the gnomons fall to every side
of the horizon. And the parallel through the summer tropic is there always visible,
...
Robert Maynard Hutchins, Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc, University of Chicago, 1952
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great books of the western world
And this is the first of the periscian parallels. For since the sun at the summer
tropic does not set for that parallel, the shadows of the gnomons fall to every side
of the horizon. And the parallel through the summer tropic is there always visible,
...
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American State Papers. The federalist: by Alexander ...
And this is the first of the periscian parallels. For since the sun at the summer
tropic does not set for that parallel, the shadows of the gnomons fall to every side
of the horizon. And the parallel through the summer tropic is there always visible,
...
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, 1978
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Great books of the Western world
And this is the first of the periscian parallels. For since the sun at the summer
tropic does not set for that parallel, the shadows of the gnomons fall to every side
of the horizon. And the parallel through the summer tropic is there always visible,
...
Robert Maynard Hutchins, Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc, 1952
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The Major writings of Ptolemy, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes ...
And this is the first of the periscian parallels. For since the sun at the summer
tropic does not set for that parallel, the shadows of the gnomons fall to every side
of the horizon. And the parallel through the summer tropic is there always visible,
...
Johannes Kepler, Ptolemy, Nicolaus Copernicus, 1985
