 Wherefore if according to what we have already said it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman.  The Living Age - Page 711909Full view - About this book
 | Bartholomew Prescot - Astronomy - 1822 - 292 pages
...supposed had appeared in the years 1531, 1607 and 1682 as before mentioned : " Wherefore," said he " if, according to what we have already said, it should return again about the year 1 758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman."... | |
 | 1881 - 502 pages
...COMET-SEEKERS. " Wherefore if it should return according to our prediction, about the year 1758, impartial posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." — Halley's words concerning the return of his comet. WHO has not heard of Halley's comet, a blazing... | |
 | 1909 - 1106 pages
...before his prediction could be verified ; and so he left behind him a touching plea that reads : " Wherefore, if, according to what we have already said,...that this was first discovered by an Englishman." When the comet blazed forth on Christmas day, 1758, it was forever shorn of the dreadful divinity with... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1873 - 336 pages
...his investigation, " if it should return, according to our prediction, about the year 1758, impartial posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." He had been gathered to the grave in Lee churchyard seventeen years when the prediction was verified.... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1905 - 908 pages
...the date of its return, and he concludes his argument with a blend of confidence and patriotism : — Wherefore if according to what we have already said it should return again about the year 17.38, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Enylishman.... | |
 | Robert Stawell Ball - Astronomy - 1885 - 612 pages
...writes : " Wherefore if it should return according to our prediction about the year 1758, impartial posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." As the time drew nigh when this great event was expected, it awakened the liveliest interest among... | |
 | George Frederick Chambers - Astronomical instruments - 1889 - 736 pages
...subject : — " Wherefore if it should return according to our prediction about the year 1758 impartial posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." Although Halley did not survive to see his prediction fulfilled, yet, as the time drew near, great... | |
 | Robert Stawell Ball - Astronomers - 1895 - 400 pages
...prediction, but he says : " If it should return, according to our predictions, about the year 1758, impartial posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman." This was, indeed, a remarkable prediction of an event to occur fifty-three years after it had been... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1905 - 904 pages
...the date of its return, and he concludes his argument with a blend of confidence and patriotism: — Wherefore if according to what we have already said...acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman. Such was Ilalley's prediction published in the year 1705. The comet pursued its course, and it was... | |
 | Astronomy - 1905 - 512 pages
...the date of its return, and he concludes his argument with a blend of confidence and patriotism : — Wherefore if according to what we have already said...acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman. Such was Halley's prediction published in the year 1705. The comet pursued its course, and it was next... | |
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