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... the spectroscope are found to consist of a gaseous nucleus attended by a coma which probably shines by reflected light ; but whether this is the case with all or even the generality of comets it would 2 A NEW THEORY OF THE UNIVERSE .
... the spectroscope are found to consist of a gaseous nucleus attended by a coma which probably shines by reflected light ; but whether this is the case with all or even the generality of comets it would 2 A NEW THEORY OF THE UNIVERSE .
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... probably many others , coincide throughout their calculated extent with the orbits of known comets . Accordingly , we are led to trace an intimate connection , if not an absolute identity , between comets and shooting - star systems ...
... probably many others , coincide throughout their calculated extent with the orbits of known comets . Accordingly , we are led to trace an intimate connection , if not an absolute identity , between comets and shooting - star systems ...
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... probably some thirty or forty years later , is printed in Mr. Furnivall's " Babees Book , " under the title of " How the good Wiif taughte her Doughtir . " Among other things , which show rather a deficiency in refinement , the young ...
... probably some thirty or forty years later , is printed in Mr. Furnivall's " Babees Book , " under the title of " How the good Wiif taughte her Doughtir . " Among other things , which show rather a deficiency in refinement , the young ...
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... probably not much accustomed to riding , or , when they rode , they were rather carried by the horse , as a beast of burden , than as an animal which they had at command . We have already given examples of ladies riding , both sideways ...
... probably not much accustomed to riding , or , when they rode , they were rather carried by the horse , as a beast of burden , than as an animal which they had at command . We have already given examples of ladies riding , both sideways ...
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... probably not till a rather late period that the prac- tice became general . It is introduced not unfrequently in the great romances compiled in the latter part of the twelfth and in the thir- teenth centuries , but the conducting of the ...
... probably not till a rather late period that the prac- tice became general . It is introduced not unfrequently in the great romances compiled in the latter part of the twelfth and in the thir- teenth centuries , but the conducting of the ...
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Página 427 - ... which cinders had been spread out only half a year before, Mr. Darwin actually saw the castings of the worms heaped on the smaller fragments. Nor is the agency so trivial as it at first might be thought, the great number of earth-worms (as every one must be aware who has ever dug in a grass field) making up for the insignificant quantity of work which each performs.
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