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... origin of the solar system . I have already sketched two theories of the system , and described the general facts on which both theories are based . The various planets circle in one direction around the sun , the sun rotating in the ...
... origin of the solar system . I have already sketched two theories of the system , and described the general facts on which both theories are based . The various planets circle in one direction around the sun , the sun rotating in the ...
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... origin in processes of accretion , -though it seems equally clear that each individual orb of the system , if not each subordinate scheme within it , has also under- gone a process of contraction from a former nebulous condition . It In ...
... origin in processes of accretion , -though it seems equally clear that each individual orb of the system , if not each subordinate scheme within it , has also under- gone a process of contraction from a former nebulous condition . It In ...
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... origin of the moon's rotation must be adopted , unless the matter be regarded as the result of a strange chance . If we believe , on the contrary , that the arrangement was specially ordained by the Creator , we are left to wonder what ...
... origin of the moon's rotation must be adopted , unless the matter be regarded as the result of a strange chance . If we believe , on the contrary , that the arrangement was specially ordained by the Creator , we are left to wonder what ...
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... origin of suns . We have vast gaseous masses intermingled with and surround- ing groups of stars , and apparently spread with exceptional richness where these stars or suns are most densely aggre- gated . But this is not what we should ...
... origin of suns . We have vast gaseous masses intermingled with and surround- ing groups of stars , and apparently spread with exceptional richness where these stars or suns are most densely aggre- gated . But this is not what we should ...
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... origin to what may be called the decay of a great compound nebula of the third form ; and that the subdivisions which happened to it in the length of time occasioned all the small nebulæ which spring from it to lie in a certain range ...
... origin to what may be called the decay of a great compound nebula of the third form ; and that the subdivisions which happened to it in the length of time occasioned all the small nebulæ which spring from it to lie in a certain range ...
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Сторінка 48 - Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death: The spirit does but mean the breath: I know no more.
Сторінка 48 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Сторінка 288 - Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, Even to make the poor of the land to fail, Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? And the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, Making the ephah small, and the shekel great, And falsifying the balances by deceit?
Сторінка 28 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
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Сторінка 28 - Memoriam." (Dedicated by Permission to the Poet-Laureate.) Fcap. 8vo, 2s. The Education of the Human Race. Translated from the German of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Fcap. 8vo, 2s. 6d. The above Works can also be had, bound in half morocco. *»* A Portrait of the late Rev. FW Robertson, mounted for framing, can be had, 2s.
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Сторінка 285 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand; This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: For I should have denied the God that is above.
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