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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... called Omicron , in the constellation Cetus , appears to us only twelve times in eleven years . It is seen in its greatest brightness during a fortnight ; it then decreases gradually during three months , when it disappears . After an ...
... called Omicron , in the constellation Cetus , appears to us only twelve times in eleven years . It is seen in its greatest brightness during a fortnight ; it then decreases gradually during three months , when it disappears . After an ...
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... called gluttons , feeding within the transparent shell of a small dead wheel * animal , both the shell and its numerous contents being invisible to the unassisted eye . This little creature resembles * We are convinced from observation ...
... called gluttons , feeding within the transparent shell of a small dead wheel * animal , both the shell and its numerous contents being invisible to the unassisted eye . This little creature resembles * We are convinced from observation ...
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... called Encke's comet , which moves with extraordinary rapidity in an exceedingly eccentric orbit round . the sun . That orbit it completes in about three years and four months , or , more accurately speaking , in twelve hundred and ...
... called Encke's comet , which moves with extraordinary rapidity in an exceedingly eccentric orbit round . the sun . That orbit it completes in about three years and four months , or , more accurately speaking , in twelve hundred and ...
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... called after M. Biela , of Josephstadt , by a re- markable coincidence , very nearly intersects that of the earth ; and it is very well known , that had the latter been only a little month in advance of its actual place at the time of ...
... called after M. Biela , of Josephstadt , by a re- markable coincidence , very nearly intersects that of the earth ; and it is very well known , that had the latter been only a little month in advance of its actual place at the time of ...
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... he seems to be below what is called a , smatterer , and the turn of his mind is * Quarterly Review , No. LXXXII . p . 441 , evidently ' 6 to evidently neither accurate in observation , precise 34 The Bridgewater Treatises .
... he seems to be below what is called a , smatterer , and the turn of his mind is * Quarterly Review , No. LXXXII . p . 441 , evidently ' 6 to evidently neither accurate in observation , precise 34 The Bridgewater Treatises .
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