 If you forgive me, I rejoice ; if you are angry, I can bear it. The die is cast, the book is written, to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.  Fourteen Weeks in Descriptive Astronomy - Page 29by Joel Dorman Steele - 1874 - 336 pagesFull view - About this book
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