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... LECTURE VII . THE LIFE OF A PRIMROSE PAGE 150 LECTURE VIII . THE HISTORY OF A PIECE OF COAL .. 171 LECTURE IX . BEES IN THE HIVE .. 193 BEES AND FLOWERS LECTURE X. 212 THE FAIRY - LAND OF SCIENCE . LECTURE I. HOW viii TABLE OF CONTENTS .
... LECTURE VII . THE LIFE OF A PRIMROSE PAGE 150 LECTURE VIII . THE HISTORY OF A PIECE OF COAL .. 171 LECTURE IX . BEES IN THE HIVE .. 193 BEES AND FLOWERS LECTURE X. 212 THE FAIRY - LAND OF SCIENCE . LECTURE I. HOW viii TABLE OF CONTENTS .
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... flowers ; and he , entering the castle , reached the room where the princess lay , and with one sweet kiss raised her and all around her to life again . Can science bring any tale to match this ? Tell me , is there anything in this ...
... flowers ; and he , entering the castle , reached the room where the princess lay , and with one sweet kiss raised her and all around her to life again . Can science bring any tale to match this ? Tell me , is there anything in this ...
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... flowers blow , houses spring up like Aladdin's palace in a single night , and people are carried hundreds of miles in an instant by the touch of a fairy wand . And then this land is not some distant country . to which we can never hope ...
... flowers blow , houses spring up like Aladdin's palace in a single night , and people are carried hundreds of miles in an instant by the touch of a fairy wand . And then this land is not some distant country . to which we can never hope ...
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... flowers , drinking out of acorn - cups , fighting with blades of grass , and riding on grass- hoppers . So , too , the gallant knight , riding to save some poor oppressed maiden , dashes across the foaming torrent ; and just in the ...
... flowers , drinking out of acorn - cups , fighting with blades of grass , and riding on grass- hoppers . So , too , the gallant knight , riding to save some poor oppressed maiden , dashes across the foaming torrent ; and just in the ...
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... flower - buds opening one by one , and then ask yourself , " How all this is done ? " Go out in the evening and see the dew gather drop by drop upon the grass , or trace the delicate hoar - frost crystals which bespangle every blade on ...
... flower - buds opening one by one , and then ask yourself , " How all this is done ? " Go out in the evening and see the dew gather drop by drop upon the grass , or trace the delicate hoar - frost crystals which bespangle every blade on ...
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Page 152 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Page 192 - That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Page 5 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 7 - COAL FIELDS of GREAT BRITAIN; their History, Structure, and Resources ; with Notices of the Coal Fields of other parts of the World. By EDWARD HULL, MA, FRS, Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland, Professor of Geology in the Royal College of Science, Dublin, £c.
Page 6 - MINERALOGIST'S DIRECTORY ; or, A GUIDE to the PRINCIPAL MINERAL LOCALITIES in the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND.
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Page 4 - MONEY, WEIGHTS, and MEASURES of the CHIEF COMMERCIAL NATIONS IN THE WORLD, with the British Equivalents.