The Complete Works of Thomas Dick, Band 2Sumner and Goodman, 1849 |
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... thousand years has been spent in anxious inquiries after the path to true knowledge and happiness - Igno- rance , Superstition , Idolatry , Vice , and Misery still continue to sway their sceptre over the great majority of the human race ...
... thousand years has been spent in anxious inquiries after the path to true knowledge and happiness - Igno- rance , Superstition , Idolatry , Vice , and Misery still continue to sway their sceptre over the great majority of the human race ...
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... thousand of these lumina- ries may be seen in a clear winter nigh , by the naked eye ; so that a miss of matter equal to a thousand solar systems , or to thirteen hun- dred and twenty millions of globes of the size of the earth , may be ...
... thousand of these lumina- ries may be seen in a clear winter nigh , by the naked eye ; so that a miss of matter equal to a thousand solar systems , or to thirteen hun- dred and twenty millions of globes of the size of the earth , may be ...
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... thousand stars , a thousand stars with 80 millions , and 80 millions with all the boundless extent which lies beyond the limits of mortal vision ; and , at every step of this mental process , sufficient time must be allowed for the ...
... thousand stars , a thousand stars with 80 millions , and 80 millions with all the boundless extent which lies beyond the limits of mortal vision ; and , at every step of this mental process , sufficient time must be allowed for the ...
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... thousand miles in dia- meter , and would comprehend , within its vast circumference , more than a thousand globes as large as the earth . Could we contemplate such motions , from a fixed point , at the distance of only a few hundreds of ...
... thousand miles in dia- meter , and would comprehend , within its vast circumference , more than a thousand globes as large as the earth . Could we contemplate such motions , from a fixed point , at the distance of only a few hundreds of ...
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... thousand miles an hour , since the earth is more than twenty - four thousand miles in circumference . This view of the fact , when attentively considered , fur- nishes a most sublime and astonishing idea . That a globe of so vast ...
... thousand miles an hour , since the earth is more than twenty - four thousand miles in circumference . This view of the fact , when attentively considered , fur- nishes a most sublime and astonishing idea . That a globe of so vast ...
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