The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany, Volume 11J. Sibbald, Parliament-Square, 1790 - Books and bookselling |
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... fince it is generally known , that four Ethiop kings successively reigned in that country , having been invited over by the natives to oppose the ty- rant Dhu Nawas , and that they were in their turn expelled by the arms of the ...
... fince it is generally known , that four Ethiop kings successively reigned in that country , having been invited over by the natives to oppose the ty- rant Dhu Nawas , and that they were in their turn expelled by the arms of the ...
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... fince the apparent mag- nitude of these stars is equal , and their distance from us is also equal , -be- cause we may safely neglect the dia- meter of the cluster , which , if the cen- ter be seventeen thousand times the distance of ...
... fince the apparent mag- nitude of these stars is equal , and their distance from us is also equal , -be- cause we may safely neglect the dia- meter of the cluster , which , if the cen- ter be seventeen thousand times the distance of ...
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... fince actual and particular facts are brought to vouch for the truth of every inference . Having then established that the clusters of stars of the 1st Form , and round nebulæ , are of a spherical fi- gure , I think myself plainly ...
... fince actual and particular facts are brought to vouch for the truth of every inference . Having then established that the clusters of stars of the 1st Form , and round nebulæ , are of a spherical fi- gure , I think myself plainly ...
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... fince , from every form , it is now equally apparent that the central ac- cumulation or brightness must be the refult of central powers , we may ven- ture to affirm that this theory is no longer an unfounded hypothesis , but is fully ...
... fince , from every form , it is now equally apparent that the central ac- cumulation or brightness must be the refult of central powers , we may ven- ture to affirm that this theory is no longer an unfounded hypothesis , but is fully ...
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... fince one that is composed of a thousand stars only must certainly ar- rive to the perfection of its form foon- er than another , which takes in a range of a million . Youth and age are comparative expressions ; and an oak of a certain ...
... fince one that is composed of a thousand stars only must certainly ar- rive to the perfection of its form foon- er than another , which takes in a range of a million . Youth and age are comparative expressions ; and an oak of a certain ...
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