... star, to ascertain and mark off the heavenly spaces, and transfer them to his note-book; the clock is that marvelous apparatus by which he equalizes and divides into nicely measured parts a portion of that unconceived infinity of duration, without beginning and without end, in which all existence floats as on a shoreless and ... — The Uses of Astronomy - An Oration Delivered at Albany on the 28th of July, 1856 • Edward Everett Read full book for free!
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