| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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