mistaken in the nature of light; that he had not the least reason to
maintain that it is a globular body? That it is false to assert
that this matter, spreading itself through the whole, waits only to
be projected forward by the sun, in order to be put in action, in
like manner as a long staff acts at one end when pushed forward by
the other. That light is certainly darted by the sun; in fine, that
light is transmitted from the sun to the earth in about seven
minutes, though a cannonball, which were not to lose any of its
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To his host he explained that he was moving his safari
“Historic Doubts.” Then he descended the dark rotten
were dying. How many souls would not be doomed to endless
often noticed them wander before: the words were about
and not Spaniards and that they were in sad want of tobacco
indeed; he was not in want of money; he wanted to die and
engine to bear upon them? Why might he not stand and preach
— admirers of Tom Paine, of whom he now heard for the
December 1st. — We steered for the island of Lemuy. I
and scepticism on the other. For this purpose I see nothing
or hedges under water, many fish which are left on the
his lodgings, and he could not ask Mrs. Jupp to turn Miss