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 - English literature |
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Page 91
... matter , in such various degrees of concentration , yet all in constant motion , we cannot but suppose that portions of matter still smaller , or more attenuated , may be in movement around us ; apparent only when they come into such ...
... matter , in such various degrees of concentration , yet all in constant motion , we cannot but suppose that portions of matter still smaller , or more attenuated , may be in movement around us ; apparent only when they come into such ...
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... matter in space ; becoming luminous meteors or projectiles , when their orbits approach within certain distances of that of the earth . He avows , when leaving the sub- ject , that he has lingered upon it with predilection ( mit ...
... matter in space ; becoming luminous meteors or projectiles , when their orbits approach within certain distances of that of the earth . He avows , when leaving the sub- ject , that he has lingered upon it with predilection ( mit ...
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... matter composing or evolving these asteroids . Professor Olmsted , and other American naturalists , fresh from the spectacle that had been before their eyes , took up the question before it had been treated in Europe ; and the former ...
... matter composing or evolving these asteroids . Professor Olmsted , and other American naturalists , fresh from the spectacle that had been before their eyes , took up the question before it had been treated in Europe ; and the former ...
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