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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... 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 containing two distinct sets of stars , each set triple ...
... 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 containing two distinct sets of stars , each set triple ...
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... mind . We have no mode of ascertaining the distance of any one of the stars from the earth . We have measured the circumference which we describe in our annual journey round the sun ; we take the diameter of that circle , and with it ...
... mind . We have no mode of ascertaining the distance of any one of the stars from the earth . We have measured the circumference which we describe in our annual journey round the sun ; we take the diameter of that circle , and with it ...
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... mind which is in this manner enabled to com- prehend the existence of myriads of peopled worlds besides our own , and to glance to the future and the past with more than the speed of light itself , must be the creation of some superior ...
... mind which is in this manner enabled to com- prehend the existence of myriads of peopled worlds besides our own , and to glance to the future and the past with more than the speed of light itself , must be the creation of some superior ...
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... mind harassed by the technical details which render almost all other works of the kind repulsive to the general reader . But before he enters upon that treatise , he should prepare his thoughts for the tone of elevation which it ...
... mind harassed by the technical details which render almost all other works of the kind repulsive to the general reader . But before he enters upon that treatise , he should prepare his thoughts for the tone of elevation which it ...
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... Mind which has fashioned the whole , veiling but not eclipsing the ra- diance of His glory . Whether it be ordained that as one system perishes another shall supply its place in eternal succession , thus manifesting to all ages the ...
... Mind which has fashioned the whole , veiling but not eclipsing the ra- diance of His glory . Whether it be ordained that as one system perishes another shall supply its place in eternal succession , thus manifesting to all ages the ...
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