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An introduction to astronomy : in a series of letters from a preceptor to his pupil ... / by John Bonnycastle
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tunity of examining, yet there is a generalanalogy running through and connecting all theparts into one scheme, one design, one whole!

To conclude, in the words of an admiredwriter upon this subject; “ What an august!what an amazing conception, if human imagi-nation can conceive it, does this give of theworks of the Creator! Thousands of thousandsof funs, multiplied without end, and ranged allaround us, at immense distances from each other,attended by ten thousand times ten thousandworlds, all in rapid motion, yet calm, regular,and harmonious, invariably keeping the pathsprescribed them ; and these worlds peopled withmyriads of intelligent beings, formed for anendless progression in perfection and felicity.

If so much power, goodness, artft magnificence,be displayed in the material creation, which isthe least considerable part of the universe,, howgreat, wife, and good must He be, who madeand governs the whole!"

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