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Before anything was as yet known of the comet's path or velocity, he announced, from the position of the double sodium-line alone, that at 3 p.m. on September 18 it was increasing its distance from our planet by from 61 to 76 kilometres per second. M. Bigourdan's subsequent calculations showed that its actual swiftness of recession was at that moment 73 kilometres.
Don Antonio, prior of Crato, a natural son of the royal family of Portugal, trusting to the aversion of his countrymen against the Castilians, had advanced a claim to the crown; and flying first to France, thence to England, had been encouraged both by Henry and Elizabeth in his pretensions. * Birch's Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth, vol. i. p. 61.
I mention this fact, here, to shew in what light her brothers and family considered this separation. They looked upon it as a misfortune which all lamented; but it is evident, from this circumstance, that they did not look upon it in a criminal light; for, if they had done so, they would not have continued a moment under such a pecuniary 61
Her smiles at the foot of the steps changed to something like a sob when she discovered that Old '61 had been decorating the organ and the little porch. He, himself, was brushed and radiant, his old face the face of a little child. "The audience will sit on the steps," Billy said, a little tremulously. "Right here. Make believe I'm rows and rows of people!
The light year is taken as the unit of measurement in the starry heavens, as the earth's mean distance is "the astronomical unit" for the solar system. The proper motions and parallaxes combined tell us the velocity of the motion of these stars across the line of sight: alpha Centauri 14.4 miles a second=4.2 astronomical units a year; 61 Cygni 37.9 miles a second=11.2 astronomical units a year.
The copy of Malthus's second edition with Coleridge's notes used by Southey is in the British Museum. See Southey's Political. Thoughts occasioned by Dr. Parr's Spital Sermon. A copy annotated by Coleridge is in the British Museum. Thoughts, etc., pp. 56, 61, 62. Ibid. p. 71. Lines added to Goldsmith's Traveller. Reply to the Essay on Population, etc., 1807. The book was anonymous.
In his cups he said as much and the Caxton corn grower, punching his neighbour in the ribs, shook with delight over the statement. When Sam was a twelve year old, barefooted boy upon the streets a kind of backwash of the wave of glory that had swept over Windy McPherson in the days of '61 lapped upon the shores of the Iowa village.
He was succeeded by Professor George S. Morris, Dartmouth, '61, who had come to the University in 1870 as Professor of Modern Languages, a man of totally different caliber, not so rugged and picturesque but more sensitive and profound, the first real scholar in the modern sense in the Department of Philosophy.
The cold caused no discomfort on the march; on the contrary, at times it was too warm. One's breath was like a cloud, and so thick was the vapour over the dogs that one could not see one team from the next, though the sledges were being driven close to one another. On the 12th it was -61.6° F., with a breeze dead against us. This was undeniably bitter.
Sonday, the 15 of September about foure of the clocke, we began to sound with our lead, and had ground at 61 fadome depth, white small sandy ground, and reckoned vs vpon the backe of Sylley, and set our course East and by North, Eastnortheast, and Northeast among.
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