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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... less wealthy classes of society , and wearisome to all ? Lastly - could he ever have dreamed that , if a massive series of volumes were to be the result of his dying arrangements , these should be offered for sale at exactly the same ...
... less wealthy classes of society , and wearisome to all ? Lastly - could he ever have dreamed that , if a massive series of volumes were to be the result of his dying arrangements , these should be offered for sale at exactly the same ...
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... less splendid character , have taken place more recently , as in the case of the star of the third magnitude discovered in 1670 , by Anthelm , in the head of the Swan ; which , after becoming completely invisible , re- appeared , and ...
... less splendid character , have taken place more recently , as in the case of the star of the third magnitude discovered in 1670 , by Anthelm , in the head of the Swan ; which , after becoming completely invisible , re- appeared , and ...
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... less than a divine intelligence could have framed and combined this splendid machinery . The magnet and the piece of sealing - wax made warm by friction attract other bodies , by means of the electric fluid with which the one is ...
... less than a divine intelligence could have framed and combined this splendid machinery . The magnet and the piece of sealing - wax made warm by friction attract other bodies , by means of the electric fluid with which the one is ...
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... less than ten days in advance of the place which it would have reached , had no such resistance narrowed its orbit . It must , therefore , eventually be absorbed in the sun , however remote the period may be when that event shall take ...
... less than ten days in advance of the place which it would have reached , had no such resistance narrowed its orbit . It must , therefore , eventually be absorbed in the sun , however remote the period may be when that event shall take ...
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... 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 thou- sand revolutions , or twenty - three thousand years . If Jupiter ...
... 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 thou- sand revolutions , or twenty - three thousand years . If Jupiter ...
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