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Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1859
 

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Sivu 570 - New Edition, Vol. 2, Part 2, and Vol. 3, Parts 1 and 2, folio (1821 — 1830). Edited by JOHN CALEY and FRED.
Sivu 574 - THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND ; from the Accession of Henry VIII. to the Death of Queen Anne (1509 — 1714). Designed as a Book of instant Reference for ascertaining the Dates of Events mentioned in History and Manuscripts. The Name of every Person and Event mentioned in History within the above period is placed in Alphabetical and Chronological Order, and the Authority whence taken is given in each case, whether from Printed History or from Manuscripts. By FS THOMAS, Esq. 3 vols. 8vo. (1856), cloth. Price...
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Sivu lxviii - Without mathematical instruments no science can be mastered," he complains afterwards, "and these instruments are not to be found among the Latins, nor could they be made for two or three hundred pounds. Besides, better tables are indispensably necessary, tables on which the motions of the heavens are certified from the beginning to the end of the world without daily labor, but these tables are worth a king's ransom and could not be made without a vast expense.
Sivu lxviii - ... and then every day we could consider in the heavens the causes of all things which are renovated in the earth, and 'seek similar positions [of the heavens] in times past, and discover similar effects. These tables would be worth a king's ransom, and therefore could not be made without vast expense. And I have often attempted the composition of such tables, but could not finish them through failure of the expenses, and the folly...
Sivu xxii - The professed object of the work is to urge the necessity of a reform in the mode of philosophizing, to set forth the reasons why knowledge had not made a greater progress, to draw back attention to...

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