American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 12Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1838 |
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... character escaped detection so long . The inclination of its orbit to the plane of the ecliptic is less than that of any other planet , being not quite 47 ' . Dr. Herschel says , ' the flattening of the poles of this planet seems to be ...
... character escaped detection so long . The inclination of its orbit to the plane of the ecliptic is less than that of any other planet , being not quite 47 ' . Dr. Herschel says , ' the flattening of the poles of this planet seems to be ...
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... character was in no single point deficient ; I suppose she had failings , but only because she was human . Her mother died when she was in her third year , and Anna had been a kind of soothing spirit to a capricious father ; at length ...
... character was in no single point deficient ; I suppose she had failings , but only because she was human . Her mother died when she was in her third year , and Anna had been a kind of soothing spirit to a capricious father ; at length ...
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... character he has hit upon to embody the fifth age ' is not , perhaps , as applicable now as it was then . But Shakspeare himself was a ' justice , ' when he wrote the ages , not though as he painted him . It is his own age that , in our ...
... character he has hit upon to embody the fifth age ' is not , perhaps , as applicable now as it was then . But Shakspeare himself was a ' justice , ' when he wrote the ages , not though as he painted him . It is his own age that , in our ...
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... character . They call to our remembrance the flatteries of the world , and its thousand broken promises , and teach us to depend for our contentment and happiness upon other sources than those which satisfied our desires 28 [ July , The ...
... character . They call to our remembrance the flatteries of the world , and its thousand broken promises , and teach us to depend for our contentment and happiness upon other sources than those which satisfied our desires 28 [ July , The ...
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... character . Such being the sorrowful truth , the philosopher and the moralist are anxious to change the aspect of society , and by inducing mankind to observe the only true regimen , to increase the moral health , and preserve it in ...
... character . Such being the sorrowful truth , the philosopher and the moralist are anxious to change the aspect of society , and by inducing mankind to observe the only true regimen , to increase the moral health , and preserve it in ...
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