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A Handbook of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy: The sun, planets, and comets - Page 204
by George Frederick Chambers - 1889
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History of Physical Astronomy: From the Earliest Ages to the Middle of the ...

Robert Grant - Astronomy - 1852 - 686 pages
...as many others, to whom I have shewn them ? Now, perhaps, is the time come to revive the well nigh withered hopes of those who, guided by more profound...novel. The shortness of the time, the unexpected nature of the event, the weakness of my understanding, and the fear of being mistaken, have greatly confounded...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 40

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 588 pages
...with which the glasses have so long deceived me, as well as many others, to whom I have shown them? I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked-for, and so novel. The shortness of the time, the unexpected nature of the event, the weakness...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 40

American literature - 1857 - 602 pages
...with which the glasses have so long deceived me, as well as many others, to whom I have shown them? I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked-for, and so novel. The shortness of the time, the unexpected nature of the event, the weakness...
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Descriptive Astronomy

George Frederick Chambers - Astronomy - 1867 - 888 pages
...Phil. Trant., vol. busiv. p. 6». 1794. d Opere di Galileo, vol. ii. p. 41. Padua ed., 1744. • Ibid. indeed illusion or fraud, with which the glasses have...novel. The shortness of the time, the unexpected nature of the event, the weakness of my understanding, and the fear of being mistaken, have greatly confounded...
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Arts and Sciences: Or, Fourth Division of "The English Encyclopedia", Volume 7

Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 528 pages
...as many others to whom I have showed them ? Now, perhaps, is the time come to revive the well nigh withered hopes of those who, guided by more profound...do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked-for, and so novel. The shortness of the time, the unexpected nature of the event, the weakness...
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Monthly Packet, Volume 14

1872 - 642 pages
...and suddenly fled? Has Saturn perhaps devoured his own children ? Or were the appearances indeed an illusion or fraud, with which the glasses have so...novel. The shortness of the time, the unexpected nature of the event, the weakness of my understanding, and the fear of being mistaken, have greatly confounded...
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The heavens and the earth; or, Familiar illustrations of astronomy

Thomas Milner - 1873 - 336 pages
...with which the glasses have so long deceived me, as well as many others, to whom I have shown them ? I do not know what to say in a case so surprising,...novel. The shortness of the time, the unexpected nature of the event, the weakness of my understanding, and the fear of being mistaken, have greatly confounded...
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Our place among infinities, essays. To which are added essays on astrology ...

Richard Anthony Proctor - 1875 - 394 pages
...and suddenly fled? Has Saturn perhaps devoured his own children? Or were the appearances indeed an illusion or fraud, with which the glasses have so...novel. The shortness of the time, the unexpected nature of the event, the weakness of my understanding, and the fear of being mistaken, have greatly confounded...
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Our Place Among Infinities: A Series of Essays Contrasting Our Little Abode ...

Richard Anthony Proctor - Astrology - 1876 - 348 pages
...and suddenly fled ? Has Saturn perhaps devoured his own children? Or were the appearances indeed an illusion or fraud, with which the glasses have so...novel. The shortness of the time, the unexpected nature of the event, the weakness of my understanding, and the fear of being mistaken, have greatly confounded...
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Our Place Among Infinities: A Series of Essays Contrasting Our Little Abode ...

Richard Anthony Proctor - Astrology - 1876 - 396 pages
...deceived me, as well as many others to whom I have shewn them? Now, perhaps, is the time come tore vive the well-nigh withered hopes of those who, guided...novel. The shortness of the time, the unexpected nature of the event, the weakness of my understanding, and the fear of being mistaken, have greatly confounded...
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