It is quite proper that the Sun should be the means of shedding so much light on the Moon, That there should be winged people in the moon does not strike us as more wonderful than the existence of such a race of beings on... Practical Talks by an Astronomer - Page 208by Harold Jacoby - 1902 - 235 pagesFull view - About this book
| Richard Adams Locke - 1859 - 90 pages
...the recent discoveries of Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope." — Albany Daily Advertiser. " It is quite proper that the Sun should be the means...wonderful than the existence of such a race of beings on earth ; and that there does or did exist such a race rests on the evidence of that most veracious of... | |
| Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1866 - 370 pages
...this irreverent way : — " It is quite proper that the Sun should bo the means of shedding so mnch light on the Moon. That there should be winged people in the Moon does not strike as ns more wonderful than the existence of such a race of beings on the earth ; and that there does... | |
| Frank Michael O'Brien - 1918 - 562 pages
...chanting cherubs of the Post," as Colonel Webb was wont to call them — only skirted the edge of doubt : That there should be winged people in the moon does...wonderful than the existence of such a race of beings on earth ; and that there does or did exist such a race rests on the evidence of that most veracious of... | |
| Daniel Webster Hering - 1924 - 324 pages
...that time by William Cullen Bryant and FitzGreene Halleck). " It is quite proper," says The Post, " that the Sun should be the means of shedding so much...wonderful than the existence of such a race of beings on earth; and that there does or did exist such a race rests on the evidence of that most veracious and... | |
| 1903 - 556 pages
..."It appears to carry intrinsic evidence of being an authentic document." — Mercantile Advertiser. "It is quite proper that the Sun should be the means of shedding so much light on the Moon." — NY Evening Post. "The account of the wonderful discoveries in the moon are all probable and plausible,... | |
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