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In the course of conversation he inquired laughingly why I had bought one of his flagons of mercury. "You can find out if you come to my room," I said. After dinner we repaired to my room, and he found his mercury divided in two vessels.
Go back home to father and dear little Beth! I had not realized how much I had wanted it. "What you have done for our nation for our girls can never be repaid, Alan. And you can do more in later years, perhaps. But now your father needs you and we must think of him." I cast aside every consideration of what changes would first have to be made here on Mercury, and decided in that moment to go.
And did they realise that the words they heard were deathless words? Imagine hearing for the first time: 'When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver white.... and then 'The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. Did you ever try to write, Jean?" "Pamela," said Jean, "if you drop from Shakespeare to me in that sudden way you'll be dizzy.
On the 27th, I sent Mr Brooks, my first lieutenant, and Mr Rainor, first lieutenant of marines, to relieve Mr Randal and Mr Dodd in the Mercury, which I had fitted with a gang of oars, and, upon trial, she was found to make way at the rate of three knots, which might render her extremely useful in a calm.
When the children had breakfasted he drew on a sketch-pad a diagram of part of the solar system. A dot for the sun, and a circle with a dot on it for Mercury, the innermost planet. Another dot on a circle for Venus, the second world out. A third circle and a dot for Earth and its orbit, and beside the dot indicating Earth he drew a crescent, for the moon.
Regularity may be beautiful, but it excludes the sublime. What he wished for was something like Lloyd's list. Comets due 3; arrived 1. Mercury, when last seen, appeared to be distressed; but made no signals. Pallas and Vesta, not heard of for some time; supposed to have foundered. Moon, spoken last night through a heavy bank of clouds; out sixteen days: all right.
We had the good fortune, too, again to get admittance into the cabinet of bronzes, where we admired anew the wonderful airiness of John of Bologna's Mercury, which, as I now observed, rests on nothing substantial, but on the breath of a zephyr beneath him.
Once fairly inside the Head, the helm was starboarded and the ship was headed for a sort of bay in the southern extremity of the basin, the topsail halyards were let go, the jib hauled down, and the spanker brailed in, and with the way that she still had on her the Mercury slowly drifted to the spot which I had chosen as her final berth, and the anchor was let go, in three and a half fathoms of water.
The names that the ancients gave to those six worlds, and which are still called by the same names, are Mercury, Venus, this world that we call ours, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. They appear larger to the eye than the stars, being many million miles nearer to our earth than any of the stars are.
The reader may ask: "Why so readily accept Schiaparelli's conclusions with regard to Mercury while rejecting them in the case of Venus?" The reply is twofold. In the first place the markings on Venus, although Mr.
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