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... recognised by means of ingenious devices on a less than microscopic scale . The great glowing orb , though nine feet in diameter , was turning steadily round - a fact which my minute friends had known a long time before . Or rather I ...
... recognised by means of ingenious devices on a less than microscopic scale . The great glowing orb , though nine feet in diameter , was turning steadily round - a fact which my minute friends had known a long time before . Or rather I ...
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... recognise their own insignificance : I was about , I say , to enter upon much wise discourse on this subject and kindred matters - not failing , in particular , to show them how very much stronger and greater I was than they- when to my ...
... recognise their own insignificance : I was about , I say , to enter upon much wise discourse on this subject and kindred matters - not failing , in particular , to show them how very much stronger and greater I was than they- when to my ...
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... recognised in some sort the importance of the great luminary , and many nations worshipped him as a god . But with this worship there was commonly associated a subordinate worship of the moon ; and among some nations the moon was ...
... recognised in some sort the importance of the great luminary , and many nations worshipped him as a god . But with this worship there was commonly associated a subordinate worship of the moon ; and among some nations the moon was ...
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... and fall of the sea . No one , again , who is familiar with life at the seaside , and particularly in cities placed near the months of great tidal rivers , can fail to recognise abundant evidence of The Queen of Night . 27.
... and fall of the sea . No one , again , who is familiar with life at the seaside , and particularly in cities placed near the months of great tidal rivers , can fail to recognise abundant evidence of The Queen of Night . 27.
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... recognise abundant evidence of the importance of the variation of the sea's level in many nautical and commercial processes . But perhaps the greatest benefit conferred by the moor on mankind is one which few are aware of . It may truly ...
... recognise abundant evidence of the importance of the variation of the sea's level in many nautical and commercial processes . But perhaps the greatest benefit conferred by the moor on mankind is one which few are aware of . It may truly ...
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