The Quarterly Review, Volume 92William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1852 |
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Page 77
... lights , those ' fiery shapes and burning cressets , ' which suddenly kindle into brightness above us , and as suddenly are lost again in darkness . Sometimes seen as globes of light in rapid movement - much more frequently under the ...
... lights , those ' fiery shapes and burning cressets , ' which suddenly kindle into brightness above us , and as suddenly are lost again in darkness . Sometimes seen as globes of light in rapid movement - much more frequently under the ...
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... light . The Crystal Palace has settled all such questions . We believe that even the success of that grand experiment is about to be surpassed at Sydenham ; --but even if no better be done , the light that answered for the exhibition of ...
... light . The Crystal Palace has settled all such questions . We believe that even the success of that grand experiment is about to be surpassed at Sydenham ; --but even if no better be done , the light that answered for the exhibition of ...
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... Light Dues : - ' With respect to the light dues , we have examined the subject , and it is our opinion that in a great degree the complaints of the Shipping Interest are founded in fact . It certainly seems quite indefensible that ...
... Light Dues : - ' With respect to the light dues , we have examined the subject , and it is our opinion that in a great degree the complaints of the Shipping Interest are founded in fact . It certainly seems quite indefensible that ...
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Humboldts Cosmos | 3 |
Handbook to the Antiquities in the British Museum | 157 |
of Westminster | 182 |
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