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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... once the seats of commerce and the arts -have been handed down to us upon evidence , in no respect what- ever better entitled to our belief , than that upon which the astro- nomical facts here related by Sir John Herschel stand recorded ...
... once the seats of commerce and the arts -have been handed down to us upon evidence , in no respect what- ever better entitled to our belief , than that upon which the astro- nomical facts here related by Sir John Herschel stand recorded ...
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... once familiar to the eye , have ceased to appear , and that , too , for periods which clearly indicate their annihilation . The consequence is obvious and ine- vitable - those bodies must have been created , otherwise they could not ...
... once familiar to the eye , have ceased to appear , and that , too , for periods which clearly indicate their annihilation . The consequence is obvious and ine- vitable - those bodies must have been created , otherwise they could not ...
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... once more by un- erring steps to the existence of an Omnipotent Creator , to whose view our millions of years calculated by revolutions round the sun are but the results of a law which is unknown in eternity . ' We are in the habit ...
... once more by un- erring steps to the existence of an Omnipotent Creator , to whose view our millions of years calculated by revolutions round the sun are but the results of a law which is unknown in eternity . ' We are in the habit ...
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... once perceive that any material derangement of the process in question would convert all the vineyards of France into mere col- lections of wood , fit only to be cut down and thrown into the fire . By the same process a grain of wheat ...
... once perceive that any material derangement of the process in question would convert all the vineyards of France into mere col- lections of wood , fit only to be cut down and thrown into the fire . By the same process a grain of wheat ...
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... once of Mr. Madden's pretensions to classical learning , on which , from " Ut rationem corporis non habeant , neque parcant succumbenti laboribus , sed cogant mortalem immortali ac terrestrem æthereæ æqualem præstare industriam ...
... once of Mr. Madden's pretensions to classical learning , on which , from " Ut rationem corporis non habeant , neque parcant succumbenti laboribus , sed cogant mortalem immortali ac terrestrem æthereæ æqualem præstare industriam ...
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