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... I regret that the pressure of other work has so long delayed the appearance of the second edition . It contains a few alterations and additions . August , 1875 . CONTENTS . Page . INTRODUCTION THE PLANETS ASTROLOGY THE MOON vi Preface .
... I regret that the pressure of other work has so long delayed the appearance of the second edition . It contains a few alterations and additions . August , 1875 . CONTENTS . Page . INTRODUCTION THE PLANETS ASTROLOGY THE MOON vi Preface .
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... contain many episodes of a cha- racter as wonderful and as truly romantic as we can find within the airy realms of fiction or of poetry . And besides the grandeur of the phenomena of astronomy and the romance which gathers round its ...
... contain many episodes of a cha- racter as wonderful and as truly romantic as we can find within the airy realms of fiction or of poetry . And besides the grandeur of the phenomena of astronomy and the romance which gathers round its ...
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... contain dried up by its scorching beams ; while on the other , or dark side , the ground must be frozen hard to the depth of several feet , the mountains covered with glaciers , and the seas blocked up with icebergs . At the very margin ...
... contain dried up by its scorching beams ; while on the other , or dark side , the ground must be frozen hard to the depth of several feet , the mountains covered with glaciers , and the seas blocked up with icebergs . At the very margin ...
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... contains , represented within its narrow bounds , all the materials of which that gorgeous system is built up . Unfortunately the spectroscope can tell us nothing of our satellite , though it is so much the nearest and most distinctly ...
... contains , represented within its narrow bounds , all the materials of which that gorgeous system is built up . Unfortunately the spectroscope can tell us nothing of our satellite , though it is so much the nearest and most distinctly ...
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... containing countless myriads of these little units . These aërolites pursue their proper paths about the sun as truly as the largest bodies of the system , save when they get entangled in the atmosphere of our own or any of the other ...
... containing countless myriads of these little units . These aërolites pursue their proper paths about the sun as truly as the largest bodies of the system , save when they get entangled in the atmosphere of our own or any of the other ...
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