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 84
... meteoric character to certain strange ferruginous masses found in different countries , regarding which only vague tradi- tions existed , or which had no history at all but that of their outward aspect . . * These masses , some of them ...
... meteoric character to certain strange ferruginous masses found in different countries , regarding which only vague tradi- tions existed , or which had no history at all but that of their outward aspect . . * These masses , some of them ...
Page 94
... meteoric stones may fall annually upon our globe . It is only in the present state of science , when the most minute quantities are subjected to notice and calculation , that we could allude without ridicule to the fact of the increment ...
... meteoric stones may fall annually upon our globe . It is only in the present state of science , when the most minute quantities are subjected to notice and calculation , that we could allude without ridicule to the fact of the increment ...
Page 102
... meteoric stars , approaching the earth at particular periods of its revolution , under conditions as to time , direction , and physical changes from proximity , which we have not space to detail . His speculation that this meteoric ...
... meteoric stars , approaching the earth at particular periods of its revolution , under conditions as to time , direction , and physical changes from proximity , which we have not space to detail . His speculation that this meteoric ...
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Humboldts Cosmos | 3 |
Handbook to the Antiquities in the British Museum | 157 |
of Westminster | 182 |
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