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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... hundred of our years . Such systems as these give the mind a faint glimmer of eternity . * We leave the planets at present out of our consideration . For instance in Orion , which is marked in South and Herschel's catalogue as ...
... hundred of our years . Such systems as these give the mind a faint glimmer of eternity . * We leave the planets at present out of our consideration . For instance in Orion , which is marked in South and Herschel's catalogue as ...
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... hundred and ninety millions of miles ; that is , it must exceed two hundred thousand times the diameter of the earth's orbit . If the dove , that returned no more to Noah , had been commissioned to bear , with her utmost speed , an ...
... hundred and ninety millions of miles ; that is , it must exceed two hundred thousand times the diameter of the earth's orbit . If the dove , that returned no more to Noah , had been commissioned to bear , with her utmost speed , an ...
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... hundred years , to which we may look forward without danger of mistake - thus opening a vista of futurity . When we reflect upon these facts - and upon the circumstance that the rays , by which we may to - night behold the Pleiads ...
... hundred years , to which we may look forward without danger of mistake - thus opening a vista of futurity . When we reflect upon these facts - and upon the circumstance that the rays , by which we may to - night behold the Pleiads ...
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... hundred and eighty - two thousand miles . But he has not perhaps much con- sidered the striking fact , that if the eleven planets by which that orb is surrounded at various distances in space , together with their eighteen satellites ...
... hundred and eighty - two thousand miles . But he has not perhaps much con- sidered the striking fact , that if the eleven planets by which that orb is surrounded at various distances in space , together with their eighteen satellites ...
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... hundred and twenty - one years before the Christian æra . These perturbations are , however , restrained within certain points of oscillation , beyond which they cannot pass . The stability of the solar system is therefore so far ...
... hundred and twenty - one years before the Christian æra . These perturbations are , however , restrained within certain points of oscillation , beyond which they cannot pass . The stability of the solar system is therefore so far ...
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