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“Phænomena's of Cœlestial Bodies”
― The Blazing World
― The Blazing World
“A judge, replied the Empress, is easy to be had, but to get an impartial judge, is a thing so difficult.”
― The Blazing World
― The Blazing World
“each followed such a profession as was most proper for the nature of their Species, which the Empress encouraged them in, especially those that had applied themselves to the study of several Arts and Sciences; for they were as ingenious and witty in the invention of profitable and useful Arts, as we are in our world, nay, more; and to that end she erected Schools, and founded several Societies.”
― The Blazing World
― The Blazing World
“For Nature is so full of variety, that our weak Senses cannot perceive all the various sorts of her Creatures; neither is there any one object perceptible by all our Senses, no more then several objects are by one sense.”
― The Blazing World
― The Blazing World
“Nevertheless, although they were thinner then the thinnest vapour, yet were they not so thin as the body of air, or else they would not be perceptible by animal sight.”
― The Blazing World
― The Blazing World
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