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... miles , 200,000 times the distance of the earth from the sun , or about 10,000 times the distance of the furthest planet , Neptune . Thus since light takes 8 minutes to come here from the sun , it will take above three years to come ...
... miles , 200,000 times the distance of the earth from the sun , or about 10,000 times the distance of the furthest planet , Neptune . Thus since light takes 8 minutes to come here from the sun , it will take above three years to come ...
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... miles a second ; he found it out by ascertaining that at a certain point in the constellation Hercules , the stars did not appear to change , while on the right and left they began to open out . Thus the sun together with all the ...
... miles a second ; he found it out by ascertaining that at a certain point in the constellation Hercules , the stars did not appear to change , while on the right and left they began to open out . Thus the sun together with all the ...
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... miles in a minute . The molecules of gases flying about in all directions frequently come into collision , and when this takes place the path of each molecule is charged , and they move off in new directions . The rapidity of these ...
... miles in a minute . The molecules of gases flying about in all directions frequently come into collision , and when this takes place the path of each molecule is charged , and they move off in new directions . The rapidity of these ...
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... miles beyond Mildenhall is the village of Axford , which contains some of the best botanical ground in the neighbourhood . A small marsh , about a quarter of an acre in extent contributes , amongst other specimens , the Marsh Orchis ( 0 ...
... miles beyond Mildenhall is the village of Axford , which contains some of the best botanical ground in the neighbourhood . A small marsh , about a quarter of an acre in extent contributes , amongst other specimens , the Marsh Orchis ( 0 ...
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... ( a ) Botany— △ collection of not less than 250 plants growing within 6 miles of Marlborough . ( b ) Apparatus to illustrate Tyndall's Lessons . To be made by the Candidate . I GREAT CRATER MONTAGNUOLA . SCHIENA DEL ASINO . ON 32.
... ( a ) Botany— △ collection of not less than 250 plants growing within 6 miles of Marlborough . ( b ) Apparatus to illustrate Tyndall's Lessons . To be made by the Candidate . I GREAT CRATER MONTAGNUOLA . SCHIENA DEL ASINO . ON 32.
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Page 14 - Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture: she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line. Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.
Page 9 - A well there is in the west country, And a clearer one never was seen ; There is not a wife in the west country But has heard of the well of St. Keyne.
Page 11 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page xi - Slawata, a Bohemian Baron, had letters to present to her ; and she, after pulling off her Glove, gave him her right Hand to kiss, sparkling with Rings and Jewels, a Mark of particular Favour : Wherever she turned her Face, as she was going along, everybody fell down on their knees.
Page x - Her bosom was uncovered, as all the English ladies have it, till they marry ; and she had on a necklace, of exceeding fine jewels ; her hands were small, her fingers long, and her stature neither tall nor low; her air was 1 He probably means rushes. stately ; her manner of speaking mild and obliging.
Page x - English fashion, strewed with hay, through which the queen commonly passes in her way to chapel. At the door stood a gentleman dressed in velvet, with a gold chain, whose office was to introduce to the queen any person of distinction that came to wait on her. It was Sunday, when there is usually the greatest attendance of nobility. In the same hall were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, a great number of...
Page xi - Then came two others, one with the rod again, the other with a salt-cellar, a plate, and bread ; when they had kneeled, as the others had done, and placed what was brought upon the table, they too retired, with the same ceremonies performed by the first. At last came an unmarried lady, (we...
Page xi - When they had waited there a little while the Yeomen of the Guard entered, bare-headed, clothed in scarlet, with a golden rose upon their backs, bringing in at each turn a course of...
Page 23 - ... them; and that these primitive particles being solids are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces, no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Page xi - A gentleman entered the room bearing a rod, and along with him another who had a table-cloth, which, after they had both kneeled three times with the utmost veneration, he spread upon the table, and, after kneeling again, they both retired. Then came two others, one with the rod again, the other with a...