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" When we contemplate the constituents of the planetary system from the point of view which this relation affords us, it is no longer mere analogy which strikes us, no longer a general resemblance among them, as individuals independent of each other, and... "
Outlines of Astronomy - Page 286
by John Frederick William Herschel - 1849 - 620 pages
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Astronomy

sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...point of view which this relation affords us, it is no longer mere ana. logy which strikes us — no longer a general resemblance among them, as individuals...interwoven in one web of mutual relation and harmonious agreement — subjected to one pervading influence, which extends from the center to the farthest limits...
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Astronomy

Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 pages
...point of view which this relation affords us, it is no longer mere analogy which strikes us — no longer a general resemblance among them, as individuals...interwoven in one web of mutual relation and harmonious agreement — subjected to one pervading influence, which extends from the center to the farthest limits...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 58

1834 - 596 pages
...satellites of the sun ; we now know the bond of close relationship by which they are held together. ' The ' resemblance is now perceived to be a true family...chain, interwoven in one web of mutual ' relation and narmonious agreement, subjected to one pervading ' influence, which extends from the centre to the...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 50

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 - 590 pages
...Saturn, — to which Sir W. Herschel added Uranus in 1781, — were all, as it were, of one family, ' bound up in one chain — interwoven in one web of mutual relation and harmonious agreement — subjected to one pervading influence, which extends from the centre to the farthest limits...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 50

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1834 - 600 pages
...Saturn, — to which Sir W. Herschel added Uranus in 1781, — were all, as it were, of one family, ' bound up in one chain — interwoven in one web of mutual relation and harmonious agreement — subjected to one pervading influence, which extends from the centre to the farthest limits...
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Natural Theology: Or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity ...

W. Paley - 1837 - 116 pages
...resemblance is found between the constituents of the planetary system, " which (says Sir J. Herschel) is perceived to be a true family likeness; they are bound...interwoven in one web of mutual relation and harmonious agreement — subjected to one pervading influence, which extends from the centre to tho farthest limits...
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Chambers's Information for the People, Volume 1

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1842 - 828 pages
...point of view which this relation affords us, it is no longer mere analogy which strikes.us — no longer a general resemblance among them, as individuals...interwoven in one web of mutual relation and harmonious agreement — subjected to one pervading influence, which extends from the centre to the farthest limitsof...
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A Treatise on Astronomy

John Frederick William Herschel - 1842 - 472 pages
...point of view which this relation affords us, it is no longer mere analogy which strikes us — no longer a general resemblance among them, as individuals...and connected with it by its own peculiar tie. The reeemblance is now perceived to be a true family likeness ; they are bound up in one chain — interwoven...
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No. 1- no. 50

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1842 - 820 pages
...the point of view which this relation affords us, it is no longer mere analogy which strikes us— no longer a general resemblance among them, as individuals...nature, and connected with it by its own peculiar tie. Tho resemblance is now perceived to be a true family likeness ; they are bound up in one chain —...
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The Christian mother's magazine, ed. by mrs. Milner, Volume 1

Mary Milner - 1844 - 788 pages
...the point of view which this relation affords us, it is no longer mere analogy which strikes us, no longer a general resemblance among them, as individuals...interwoven in one web of mutual relation and harmonious agreement — subject to one pervading influence, which extends from the centre to the farthest limits...
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