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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... probably , a thousand years to reach our globe , although light is known to travel at the rate of one hundred and ninety - two thousand miles in a second . Sirius , the brightest , because perhaps the nearest to us of those luminaries ...
... probably , a thousand years to reach our globe , although light is known to travel at the rate of one hundred and ninety - two thousand miles in a second . Sirius , the brightest , because perhaps the nearest to us of those luminaries ...
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... probably be capable of actual per- ception and calculation , and so in fact it has turned out . This comet was first seen in 1786 ; it was again discovered in 1795 , 1805 , and 1819. Astronomers at first supposed that they had in these ...
... probably be capable of actual per- ception and calculation , and so in fact it has turned out . This comet was first seen in 1786 ; it was again discovered in 1795 , 1805 , and 1819. Astronomers at first supposed that they had in these ...
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... probably deranged , during its passage , the com- ponent parts of our atmosphere , rendered it very generally incon- sistent with the continuance of animal life , and prodigiously ag- gravated the pestilence with which so many nations ...
... probably deranged , during its passage , the com- ponent parts of our atmosphere , rendered it very generally incon- sistent with the continuance of animal life , and prodigiously ag- gravated the pestilence with which so many nations ...
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... Probably by infirmities , Mr. Madden may mean mental infirmities , and by constitutional pe- culiarities , ' corporeal infirmities ; but ' habits ' joined to constitu- tional peculiarities ' seem to imply , that moral peculiarities are ...
... Probably by infirmities , Mr. Madden may mean mental infirmities , and by constitutional pe- culiarities , ' corporeal infirmities ; but ' habits ' joined to constitu- tional peculiarities ' seem to imply , that moral peculiarities are ...
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... probably closely connected with his hypochondriacal symp- toms - the scrofula . Yet he might have found in Mr. Croker's edition of Boswell more than one suggestion which should have led him to a consideration of the effects of that ...
... probably closely connected with his hypochondriacal symp- toms - the scrofula . Yet he might have found in Mr. Croker's edition of Boswell more than one suggestion which should have led him to a consideration of the effects of that ...
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