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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... respect for his learning and genius , but we are bound honestly to confess , that these volumes disappointed us . We have seldom followed a few ordinary ideas through such com- plicated and endless mazes of language , as those with ...
... respect for his learning and genius , but we are bound honestly to confess , that these volumes disappointed us . We have seldom followed a few ordinary ideas through such com- plicated and endless mazes of language , as those with ...
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... respect what- ever better entitled to our belief , than that upon which the astro- nomical facts here related by Sir John Herschel stand recorded . Men who have made it their peculiar occupation for years * The work from which we quote ...
... respect what- ever better entitled to our belief , than that upon which the astro- nomical facts here related by Sir John Herschel stand recorded . Men who have made it their peculiar occupation for years * The work from which we quote ...
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... respect to the remoter planets , it was long suspected that some planet might have a place between Jupiter and Mars , and the early part of the present century was in fact distinguished by the discovery of Ceres , Pallas , and Juno ...
... respect to the remoter planets , it was long suspected that some planet might have a place between Jupiter and Mars , and the early part of the present century was in fact distinguished by the discovery of Ceres , Pallas , and Juno ...
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... respect to each of which , machinery of the most complex description has been devised , manifestly ( amongst others ) for the purpose of mak- ing up the great deficiency of solar light , which they would other- wise experience , owing ...
... respect to each of which , machinery of the most complex description has been devised , manifestly ( amongst others ) for the purpose of mak- ing up the great deficiency of solar light , which they would other- wise experience , owing ...
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... respect to the other , have been adjusted , is of itself a proof that nothing 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 ...
... respect to the other , have been adjusted , is of itself a proof that nothing 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 ...
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