 | Arthur Conolly - 1834 - 460 σελίδες
...tea, which he recommended as " usle u% Chine" real China tea, and which was brought in little China cups, cased with silver. A lively conversation followed,...for the earth's stability, but I think one of the arguments he laid most stress upon was this : — That if the earth went round, there must be a pressure... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 596 σελίδες
...which the Meerza politely endeavoured occasionally to make general. In the course of conversation, lie introduced the great question, whether the sun goes...for the earth's stability, but I think one of the arguments he laid most stress upon was this : — That if the earth went round, there must be a pressure... | |
 | 1835 - 736 σελίδες
...tertiary for their lives ; it is necessary for them to pause and think before they positively affirm whether the sun goes round the earth, or the earth round the sun ; and yet there is no branch of literature which their ambitious tongues do not profane. The volume before... | |
 | Arthur Conolly - 1838 - 404 σελίδες
...they seldom are so unless when their religious prejudices are excited. These arc the mere opinions of a traveller : I did not form them only at Meerza...for the earth's stability, but I think one of the arguments he laid most stress upon was this, — that if the earth went round, there must be a pressure... | |
 | 1834 - 602 σελίδες
...tea, which he recommended as " us/e uz Chine," real China tea, and which was brought in little China cups, cased with silver. - A lively conversation followed,...for the earth's stability, but I think one of the arguments he laid most stress upon was this : — That if the earth went round, there must be a pressure... | |
 | Thomas William Jenkyn - 1846 - 336 σελίδες
...intended to be influential and controling. The speculation is of very little practical importance to man, whether the sun goes round the earth, or the earth round the sun ; but it is of serious consequence for him to know, whether a certain ingredient be poison or not ;... | |
 | 1848 - 614 σελίδες
...intended to be influential and controling. The speculation is of very little practical importance to man, whether the sun goes round the earth, or the earth round the sun ; but it is of serious consequence for him to know whether a certain ingredient be poison or not ;... | |
 | Family welfare association - 1871 - 276 σελίδες
...case is interesting, as going to the root of the matter; for it deals with the somewhat preliminary question whether the sun goes round the earth or the earth round him. For over five thousand years Scientific wisdom clave to the former hypothesis. By the decision... | |
 | D. M - 1880 - 126 σελίδες
...citizen may never have heard of Ptolemy or Copernicus, and may believe that he does not care a straw whether the sun goes round the earth or the earth round the sun. But if all men were suddenly to become equally careless of astronomical theories, the average citizen... | |
 | J. Hornsby Wright - 1881 - 258 σελίδες
...case is interesting, as going to the root of the matter; for it deals with the somewhat preliminary question whether the sun goes round the earth or the earth round him. For over five thousand years Scientific wisdom clave to the former hypothesis. By the decision... | |
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Chine" genuine China leaf, and which was brought in little porcelain cups cased with silver. A lively conversation followed, which the Meerza politely endeavoured occasionally to make general. In the course of conversation, he introduced the great question,... 
