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 - English literature |
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... eye and the ear , and of the sensibility to impressions of infants , insects , and fishes . The mechanical properties of bone , and the geological changes which have taken place in the earth at successive periods , have also re- ceived ...
... eye and the ear , and of the sensibility to impressions of infants , insects , and fishes . The mechanical properties of bone , and the geological changes which have taken place in the earth at successive periods , have also re- ceived ...
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... eye had never seen before . Some stars are double and even triple ; that is to say , they appear to us within a barely distinguishable distance of each other . Upwards of three thousand double stars have been already discovered , and it ...
... eye had never seen before . Some stars are double and even triple ; that is to say , they appear to us within a barely distinguishable distance of each other . Upwards of three thousand double stars have been already discovered , and it ...
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... eye it would present no variation , as the largest of our planets would not intercept much more than a hundredth part of the sun's sur- face , and could not therefore produce any loss of its light of which he could take an estimate ...
... eye it would present no variation , as the largest of our planets would not intercept much more than a hundredth part of the sun's sur- face , and could not therefore produce any loss of its light of which he could take an estimate ...
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... eye , have ceased to appear , and that , too , for periods which clearly indicate their annihilation . The consequence is obvious and ine- vitable - those bodies must have been created , otherwise they could not have been liable to ...
... eye , have ceased to appear , and that , too , for periods which clearly indicate their annihilation . The consequence is obvious and ine- vitable - those bodies must have been created , otherwise they could not have been liable to ...
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... eye . This little creature resembles * We are convinced from observation , that the wheel is an optical deception . The whole of the head of this animalculum is fringed with feelers , which it throws out and retracts with a rapidity ...
... eye . This little creature resembles * We are convinced from observation , that the wheel is an optical deception . The whole of the head of this animalculum is fringed with feelers , which it throws out and retracts with a rapidity ...
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