The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 244A. Dodd and A. Smith, 1968 - Early English newspapers The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs. |
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Page 195
Precisely as by the change of the position of the hands of a clock on the face we measure time , so by the transit method , as Halley and Delisle respectively suggested its use , we determine Venus's position on the sun's face ...
Precisely as by the change of the position of the hands of a clock on the face we measure time , so by the transit method , as Halley and Delisle respectively suggested its use , we determine Venus's position on the sun's face ...
Page 555
There will be no more transmitters of that foolish handsome face , which we saw in Scene the Second jaded and haggard with profligacy and dissipation , as its owner lounges on his chair , knocked up , dead beat , “ pounded , ” with his ...
There will be no more transmitters of that foolish handsome face , which we saw in Scene the Second jaded and haggard with profligacy and dissipation , as its owner lounges on his chair , knocked up , dead beat , “ pounded , ” with his ...
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To see Mercury as a black spot on the sun's face was to see him as , according to the true Ptolemaic faith , he could not be , as a body , namely , having no lustre save what it owes to the illumining sun .
To see Mercury as a black spot on the sun's face was to see him as , according to the true Ptolemaic faith , he could not be , as a body , namely , having no lustre save what it owes to the illumining sun .
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