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... Nights , they could spring at a bound from the earth to the clouds , or clear half - a - dozen miles at a single leap . The seven - league boots would be no longer a fable . Puck said he would put a girdle round the earth in forty ...
... Nights , they could spring at a bound from the earth to the clouds , or clear half - a - dozen miles at a single leap . The seven - league boots would be no longer a fable . Puck said he would put a girdle round the earth in forty ...
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... night , of summer and winter , that we have . For them , as for us , the sun has been set to rule the day , and moon and stars to rule the night . But though their times and seasons , their days and years , are exactly analogous to our ...
... night , of summer and winter , that we have . For them , as for us , the sun has been set to rule the day , and moon and stars to rule the night . But though their times and seasons , their days and years , are exactly analogous to our ...
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... night will everywhere last for twelve hours each , just as at our equator . Every region will be temperate ; the climate a universal and perpetual spring . At Venus we have just the reverse . No region is tem- perate ; the torrid and ...
... night will everywhere last for twelve hours each , just as at our equator . Every region will be temperate ; the climate a universal and perpetual spring . At Venus we have just the reverse . No region is tem- perate ; the torrid and ...
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... night ; at another perpetual day , and not the mild perpetual day of our arctic regions , but a real hot day , with the sun high above the horizon . Twice in the year he will be verti- cally overhead , pouring down his scorching rays ...
... night ; at another perpetual day , and not the mild perpetual day of our arctic regions , but a real hot day , with the sun high above the horizon . Twice in the year he will be verti- cally overhead , pouring down his scorching rays ...
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... nights by the irregular manner in which Jupiter appeared to move Some writers think that the sun's heat at the distance of Jupiter cannot be sufficiently great to produce such powerful effects in the same way that it produces our trade ...
... nights by the irregular manner in which Jupiter appeared to move Some writers think that the sun's heat at the distance of Jupiter cannot be sufficiently great to produce such powerful effects in the same way that it produces our trade ...
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