Poor Richard: The Almanacks for the Years 1733-1758Newly set into type expressly for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1964 - Almanacs, American - 300 pages |
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Page 34
... round it , Then let him feel ( but give me first the Purse ) And take the first he finds , for better or worse . Round went Evanus till he came where stood St. Michael with the Devil under's Foot ; And groping round , he seiz'd old ...
... round it , Then let him feel ( but give me first the Purse ) And take the first he finds , for better or worse . Round went Evanus till he came where stood St. Michael with the Devil under's Foot ; And groping round , he seiz'd old ...
Page 147
... round it in 365 Days , 6 Hours , & c . and that Day and Night are caused by the Turning of the Earth on its own Axis once round in 24 h . & c . The Ptolomean System , which prevail'd before Copernicus , suppos'd the Earth to be fix'd ...
... round it in 365 Days , 6 Hours , & c . and that Day and Night are caused by the Turning of the Earth on its own Axis once round in 24 h . & c . The Ptolomean System , which prevail'd before Copernicus , suppos'd the Earth to be fix'd ...
Page 235
... round them , in the same Manner as our Earth and the other Planets of our System revolve round the Sun. If each of those innumerable Millions and Myriads of Luminaries be in fact , as is highly probable , a glorious Sun , a stupendous ...
... round them , in the same Manner as our Earth and the other Planets of our System revolve round the Sun. If each of those innumerable Millions and Myriads of Luminaries be in fact , as is highly probable , a glorious Sun , a stupendous ...
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