American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 12Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1838 |
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... appeared . • Observations made by Flamstead , an English astronomer , record the position of this body in the heavens , in the year 1690 ; and at several other periods . Mayer , a native of Maspach , in Wurtemberg , one of the greatest ...
... appeared . • Observations made by Flamstead , an English astronomer , record the position of this body in the heavens , in the year 1690 ; and at several other periods . Mayer , a native of Maspach , in Wurtemberg , one of the greatest ...
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... appearance , when once detected , fixed the ob- server's attention . The telescope with which this discovery was made was one of seven feet in length only , and the eye - piece in use at the moment was one which magnified two hundred ...
... appearance , when once detected , fixed the ob- server's attention . The telescope with which this discovery was made was one of seven feet in length only , and the eye - piece in use at the moment was one which magnified two hundred ...
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... appeared , was executor of an estate , to which the children of his sister , a widow , laid certain claims , by right of their father . The suit concerned some valuable landed property , which it was contended , by reason of previous ...
... appeared , was executor of an estate , to which the children of his sister , a widow , laid certain claims , by right of their father . The suit concerned some valuable landed property , which it was contended , by reason of previous ...
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... appeared cold and artificial . Still , the magistrate's attention , and the half - re- spectful and half - sneering gaze of Robert Fleming , urged me along . Like most young advocates , I was unusually explicit ; touching on the various ...
... appeared cold and artificial . Still , the magistrate's attention , and the half - re- spectful and half - sneering gaze of Robert Fleming , urged me along . Like most young advocates , I was unusually explicit ; touching on the various ...
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... appeared before Virtue , and humbly asked permission to tread the same road , and follow at a distance on her chaste footsteps . Scarcely had this dejected form presented itself , when a sudden change came over the face of Virtue . As ...
... appeared before Virtue , and humbly asked permission to tread the same road , and follow at a distance on her chaste footsteps . Scarcely had this dejected form presented itself , when a sudden change came over the face of Virtue . As ...
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