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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: story told by Clarendon to the disparagement of his ancestor, because that peerage was conferred in January 1645, and must therefore have been granted after the final separation of Clarendon from the King; which is stated by that historian, in his account of his own Life, to have taken place on the 4th of March, 1644. He forgets that Clarendon uses the old style in his writings, and, consequently that what he calls the 4th of March, 1644, was in reality the 4th of March, 1645, ?a date posterior to that of the Lucas peerage, which was granted on the 3d January, in the 20th of Charles First, that is to say, on the 3d of January, 1645. His remarks on Clarendon's story seem in other respects just and well founded. Art. III.?Transactions of the Geological Society of London. Second Series. 4to. Vols. I. II. III. London: 1824-1829. E earth is one of eleven planets which revolve round the sun. It has been demonstrated by mathematicians, that all the little irregularities, arising from the mutual actions of the planets on each other, run through regular periods, and then vanish. So that these motions, for any thing which we know to the contrary, may continue for ever, without. any real altqra- tions in the mutual distances between the sun and planets. How long they have continued already we do not know. Man, as an individual, lives only about 80 years; and all our knowledge would be confined to that short period, were it not that every generation has the power of bequeathing sill the information which they acquire to their posterity. It is this happy power, derived from language and the knowledge of writing, that renders the improvement of mankind progressive, and thus distinguishes the human race from all other animals. But mankind can trace their history no farther back than 6..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217346849 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217346847 |
| Weight | 1.52 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.06 In |
| List Price | $32.19 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 474 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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