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... philosophers caused thereby , and the discovery of America · • 45 CHAP . IV . Showing the great difficulty Philosophers have had in peopling America and how the Aborigines came to be begotten by accident - to the great relief and ...
... philosophers caused thereby , and the discovery of America · • 45 CHAP . IV . Showing the great difficulty Philosophers have had in peopling America and how the Aborigines came to be begotten by accident - to the great relief and ...
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... philosophers who have entertained very different opinions ; some , too , of them entitled to much deference from their great antiquity and illustrious characters . Thus it was advanced by some of the ancient sages , that the earth was ...
... philosophers who have entertained very different opinions ; some , too , of them entitled to much deference from their great antiquity and illustrious characters . Thus it was advanced by some of the ancient sages , that the earth was ...
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... philosophers have affirmed that it is a vast wheel of bril- liant fire ; others that it is merely a mirror or sphere of trans- parent crystal ; and a third class , at the head of whom stands Anaxagoras , maintained that it was nothing ...
... philosophers have affirmed that it is a vast wheel of bril- liant fire ; others that it is merely a mirror or sphere of trans- parent crystal ; and a third class , at the head of whom stands Anaxagoras , maintained that it was nothing ...
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... philosophers do declare , that certain fiery particles exhale constantly from the earth , which concentrating in a single point of the firmament by day , constitute the sun , but being scattered and rambling about in the dark at night ...
... philosophers do declare , that certain fiery particles exhale constantly from the earth , which concentrating in a single point of the firmament by day , constitute the sun , but being scattered and rambling about in the dark at night ...
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Washington Irving. any more of the endless disputes of philosophers touching the form of this globe , but content ourselves with the theory advanced in the beginning of this chapter , and will proceed to illustrate , by experiment , the ...
Washington Irving. any more of the endless disputes of philosophers touching the form of this globe , but content ourselves with the theory advanced in the beginning of this chapter , and will proceed to illustrate , by experiment , the ...
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