Prose of the English RenaissanceJohn William Hebel Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1952 - 882 pages |
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Page 134
... called fixed stars ; for although they go around about the world in 24 hours , that is every day once , yet they keep their places in their sphere , and turn only with their sphere , or ( as Aratus saith ) they be drawn with their ...
... called fixed stars ; for although they go around about the world in 24 hours , that is every day once , yet they keep their places in their sphere , and turn only with their sphere , or ( as Aratus saith ) they be drawn with their ...
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... called in old time Mercedonius . Some say that Numa Pompilius was the first that devised this way to put a month between ; but it was a weak remedy and did little help the correction of the errors that were made in the account of the ...
... called in old time Mercedonius . Some say that Numa Pompilius was the first that devised this way to put a month between ; but it was a weak remedy and did little help the correction of the errors that were made in the account of the ...
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... called Nilus , which in September floweth near eighteen foot upright higher than his accustomed manner ; and so the bank being cut as it were a sluice , about thirty miles from Alexandria at a town called Rocetto , it doth so come to ...
... called Nilus , which in September floweth near eighteen foot upright higher than his accustomed manner ; and so the bank being cut as it were a sluice , about thirty miles from Alexandria at a town called Rocetto , it doth so come to ...
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SIR THOMAS MORE | 1 |
JOHN BOURCHIER LORD BERNErs | 24 |
SIMON FISH | 33 |
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