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... CHAPTER I. DESCRIPTION OF THE WORLD . ACCORDING to the best authorities , the world in which we dwell is a huge , opaque , reflecting , inanimate mass , floating in the vast ethereal ocean of infinite space . It has the form of an ...
... CHAPTER I. DESCRIPTION OF THE WORLD . ACCORDING to the best authorities , the world in which we dwell is a huge , opaque , reflecting , inanimate mass , floating in the vast ethereal ocean of infinite space . It has the form of an ...
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... chapter , and will proceed to illustrate , by experiment , the complexity of motion therein ascribed to this our rotatory planet . Professor Von Poddingcoft ( or Puddinghead , as the name may be rendered into English , ) was long ...
... chapter , and will proceed to illustrate , by experiment , the complexity of motion therein ascribed to this our rotatory planet . Professor Von Poddingcoft ( or Puddinghead , as the name may be rendered into English , ) was long ...
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... since that memorable era the world has been left to take her own course , and to revolve around the sun in such orbit as she thinks proper . CHAPTER II . COSMOGONY , OR CREATION OF THE WORLD HISTORY OF NEW - YORK . 335 35.
... since that memorable era the world has been left to take her own course , and to revolve around the sun in such orbit as she thinks proper . CHAPTER II . COSMOGONY , OR CREATION OF THE WORLD HISTORY OF NEW - YORK . 335 35.
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... chapter or two , into as complete a labyrinth as ever historian was perplexed withal : therefore , I advise them to take fast hold of my skirts , and keep close at my heels , venturing neither to the right hand nor to the left , lest ...
... chapter or two , into as complete a labyrinth as ever historian was perplexed withal : therefore , I advise them to take fast hold of my skirts , and keep close at my heels , venturing neither to the right hand nor to the left , lest ...
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... chapter . Of the creation of the world , we have a thousand contradic- tory accounts ; and though a very satisfactory one is furnished us by divine revelation , yet every philosopher feels himself in honor bound to furnish us with a ...
... chapter . Of the creation of the world , we have a thousand contradic- tory accounts ; and though a very satisfactory one is furnished us by divine revelation , yet every philosopher feels himself in honor bound to furnish us with a ...
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