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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... suppose , in the same manner , that he could cover our entire system with a spider's thread . He would set down the sun in his map as a fixed star ; but to his eye it would present no variation , as the largest of our planets would not ...
... suppose , in the same manner , that he could cover our entire system with a spider's thread . He would set down the sun in his map as a fixed star ; but to his eye it would present no variation , as the largest of our planets would not ...
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... suppose the Deity would bestow , without any purpose , upon a mere collection of matter . The analogies which thus display a family likeness throughout all the systems of the universe will perhaps be more easily com- prehended , if we ...
... suppose the Deity would bestow , without any purpose , upon a mere collection of matter . The analogies which thus display a family likeness throughout all the systems of the universe will perhaps be more easily com- prehended , if we ...
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... suppose that light and heat , air and water , vegetation , day and night , seasons and climates , are bestowed on Mercury , Venus , and Mars , without any view to animal life , without any purpose of administering to the maintenance and ...
... suppose that light and heat , air and water , vegetation , day and night , seasons and climates , are bestowed on Mercury , Venus , and Mars , without any view to animal life , without any purpose of administering to the maintenance and ...
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... suppose Jupiter to move in such a medium , he would in a million years lose less than a millionth part of his velocity . If a planet re- volving about the sun were to lose any portion of its velocity by the effect of resistance , it ...
... suppose Jupiter to move in such a medium , he would in a million years lose less than a millionth part of his velocity . If a planet re- volving about the sun were to lose any portion of its velocity by the effect of resistance , it ...
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... suppose it , does not allow us to escape this certainty . There is a resisting medium ; and , therefore , the movements of the solar system cannot go on for ever . The moment such a fluid is ascertained to exist , the eternity of the ...
... suppose it , does not allow us to escape this certainty . There is a resisting medium ; and , therefore , the movements of the solar system cannot go on for ever . The moment such a fluid is ascertained to exist , the eternity of the ...
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