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Page 216
... , by equality of ratios , the forces of the sun's gravitation upon them are also inversely as the square roots of their distances from the sun . ' EASTER DAY PARADOXERS . 217 In the years 1818 and 216 A BUDGET OF PARADOXES .
... , by equality of ratios , the forces of the sun's gravitation upon them are also inversely as the square roots of their distances from the sun . ' EASTER DAY PARADOXERS . 217 In the years 1818 and 216 A BUDGET OF PARADOXES .
Page 217
... Easter Day , having been particularly directed to fall before it in the act for the change of style , and in the English missals and prayer - books of all time : perhaps it would be more correct to say that Easter Day was directed to ...
... Easter Day , having been particularly directed to fall before it in the act for the change of style , and in the English missals and prayer - books of all time : perhaps it would be more correct to say that Easter Day was directed to ...
Page 218
... Easter Tables as the Spanish are to talk French . I need hardly say that the additions for distant years are as much from Clavius as the rest : my reviewer was not deep enough in his subject to know that Clavius made and published ...
... Easter Tables as the Spanish are to talk French . I need hardly say that the additions for distant years are as much from Clavius as the rest : my reviewer was not deep enough in his subject to know that Clavius made and published ...
Page 219
... EASTER DAY . In the years 1818 and 1845 , Easter Day , as given by the rules in 24 Geo . II . cap . 23. ( known as the act for the change of style ) contra- dicted the precept given in the preliminary explanations . The precept is as ...
... EASTER DAY . In the years 1818 and 1845 , Easter Day , as given by the rules in 24 Geo . II . cap . 23. ( known as the act for the change of style ) contra- dicted the precept given in the preliminary explanations . The precept is as ...
Page 220
... Easter question was merely the symbol of the strug- gle between what we may call the Jewish and Gentile sects of Christians and it nearly divided the Christian world , the Easterns , for the most part , being Quartadecimans . It is very ...
... Easter question was merely the symbol of the strug- gle between what we may call the Jewish and Gentile sects of Christians and it nearly divided the Christian world , the Easterns , for the most part , being Quartadecimans . It is very ...
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