The Quarterly Review, Volume 50William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1834 |
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... already discovered , and it is justly supposed that even this number by no means exhausts the fertility of the heavens in these twin productions , some of which have been actually observed to move round each other in orbits requiring ...
... already discovered , and it is justly supposed that even this number by no means exhausts the fertility of the heavens in these twin productions , some of which have been actually observed to move round each other in orbits requiring ...
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... already observed ; and to this profound reasoning we are indebted for the discovery of Vesta . The realization of an inference of this description , legitimately founded on principles previously an- nounced , would seem to entitle ...
... already observed ; and to this profound reasoning we are indebted for the discovery of Vesta . The realization of an inference of this description , legitimately founded on principles previously an- nounced , would seem to entitle ...
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... already seen , they exercise upon each other . But the effect of these causes has been calcu- lated with great care , and after due allowance for them has been made , the result has been to bring to light a ' residual phenomenon , ' as ...
... already seen , they exercise upon each other . But the effect of these causes has been calcu- lated with great care , and after due allowance for them has been made , the result has been to bring to light a ' residual phenomenon , ' as ...
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... already made , will lose in ten revolutions , or thirty - three years , less than one - thousandth of its velocity ; and if this law were to continue , the velocity would not be reduced to one - half its present value in less than seven ...
... already made , will lose in ten revolutions , or thirty - three years , less than one - thousandth of its velocity ; and if this law were to continue , the velocity would not be reduced to one - half its present value in less than seven ...
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... already crowded upon the mind of the geologist , and it now appears that the courses of the heavens themselves are not exempt from the universal law of decay ; that not only the rocks and the mountains , but the sun and the moon , have ...
... already crowded upon the mind of the geologist , and it now appears that the courses of the heavens themselves are not exempt from the universal law of decay ; that not only the rocks and the mountains , but the sun and the moon , have ...
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