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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... seems at present impossible that we should ever devise any means , by which we might * The double star γ in the foot of Andromeda , we observed , under favourable cir- cumstances , on the evening of the 30th of July last . It is among ...
... seems at present impossible that we should ever devise any means , by which we might * The double star γ in the foot of Andromeda , we observed , under favourable cir- cumstances , on the evening of the 30th of July last . It is among ...
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... seems to be , would have actually no existence . It would find not even a point's place on his chart , and if it were blotted out of space to - morrow , it would never be missed by any of the probably fifty worlds that are bathed in the ...
... seems to be , would have actually no existence . It would find not even a point's place on his chart , and if it were blotted out of space to - morrow , it would never be missed by any of the probably fifty worlds that are bathed in the ...
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... seems to be a perpetual stumbling- block to comets . The comet of 1770 actually got entangled among his satellites , and being thrown out of its orbit by his attraction was forced into a much larger ellipse than it had traversed before ...
... seems to be a perpetual stumbling- block to comets . The comet of 1770 actually got entangled among his satellites , and being thrown out of its orbit by his attraction was forced into a much larger ellipse than it had traversed before ...
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... seems indisposed to flourish out of China , though the South American Indians have something like it , The Cassava yams , the bread - fruit - tree the sago palm , and the the cabbage - tree , are all apparently special provisions The ...
... seems indisposed to flourish out of China , though the South American Indians have something like it , The Cassava yams , the bread - fruit - tree the sago palm , and the the cabbage - tree , are all apparently special provisions The ...
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... seems to have had some vague design of this sort in his head ; but to the natural difficulties of the subject he appears to add a peculiar degree of personal incapacity for such an in- quiry . Our readers will recollect that , on our ...
... seems to have had some vague design of this sort in his head ; but to the natural difficulties of the subject he appears to add a peculiar degree of personal incapacity for such an in- quiry . Our readers will recollect that , on our ...
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