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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... kind repulsive to the general reader . But before he enters upon that treatise , he should prepare his thoughts for the tone of elevation which it requires , by reading Mrs. Somerville's delightful volume on the Connexion of the ...
... kind repulsive to the general reader . But before he enters upon that treatise , he should prepare his thoughts for the tone of elevation which it requires , by reading Mrs. Somerville's delightful volume on the Connexion of the ...
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... kind are enormous to common apprehension . Thus Encke's comet , according to the results of the observations already made , will lose in ten revolutions , or thirty - three years , less than one - thousandth of its velocity ; and if ...
... kind are enormous to common apprehension . Thus Encke's comet , according to the results of the observations already made , will lose in ten revolutions , or thirty - three years , less than one - thousandth of its velocity ; and if ...
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... kind , some combine the fish with the lizard . They are found sometimes imbedded in reeds and grasses of gigantic proportions , in company with shell - fish , as ammonites and nautili , of inordinate bulk as compared with those of the ...
... kind , some combine the fish with the lizard . They are found sometimes imbedded in reeds and grasses of gigantic proportions , in company with shell - fish , as ammonites and nautili , of inordinate bulk as compared with those of the ...
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... kind . In thus retracing the progressive steps of creation we cannot fail to see an Intelligent Power operating according to laws which are still discerned in action ; and at the same time we receive exalted ideas of the dignity ...
... kind . In thus retracing the progressive steps of creation we cannot fail to see an Intelligent Power operating according to laws which are still discerned in action ; and at the same time we receive exalted ideas of the dignity ...
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... kind of shallow talk - of the vices and follies of the Great , because they are observed by all eyes and recorded by all pens ; but we very much doubt whether the number of the wicked and fool- ish in the higher ranks be not infinitely ...
... kind of shallow talk - of the vices and follies of the Great , because they are observed by all eyes and recorded by all pens ; but we very much doubt whether the number of the wicked and fool- ish in the higher ranks be not infinitely ...
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