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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... matter which admits of no doubt . That some of them are periodically eclipsed by opaque bodies , which apparently are members of their planetary family , we have already seen . Positive knowledge assures us that the Earth is inhabited ...
... matter which admits of no doubt . That some of them are periodically eclipsed by opaque bodies , which apparently are members of their planetary family , we have already seen . Positive knowledge assures us that the Earth is inhabited ...
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... matter and motion . Is it not incumbent upon us to conclude that the family resemblance extends to the individual character , as well as to the countenance and conduct ? We speak here only of the planets , not of their satellites ...
... matter and motion . Is it not incumbent upon us to conclude that the family resemblance extends to the individual character , as well as to the countenance and conduct ? We speak here only of the planets , not of their satellites ...
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... matter exercises over a smaller . It is by the operation of the same law that the sun`attracts Mercury , for instance , at the dis- tance of thirty - seven millions of miles . But the force of that at- traction is in some degree ...
... matter exercises over a smaller . It is by the operation of the same law that the sun`attracts Mercury , for instance , at the dis- tance of thirty - seven millions of miles . But the force of that at- traction is in some degree ...
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... matter . The calculations of Newton , on the contrary , have been made upon the hypothesis that all the heavenly bodies move in a perfect vacuum . A remarkable recent discovery shows that the doctrine of the Cartesians is right ...
... matter . The calculations of Newton , on the contrary , have been made upon the hypothesis that all the heavenly bodies move in a perfect vacuum . A remarkable recent discovery shows that the doctrine of the Cartesians is right ...
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... matter . · It is not easy to assign any probable value , or even any certain limit , to the effect of the resisting medium upon the planets . We are entirely ignorant of the comparative mass of the comets and of any of the planets ...
... matter . · It is not easy to assign any probable value , or even any certain limit , to the effect of the resisting medium upon the planets . We are entirely ignorant of the comparative mass of the comets and of any of the planets ...
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