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... Throughout the whole book I have availed myself freely of the leading popular works on science , but have found it im- possible to give special references , as nearly all the matter I have dealt with has long been the common.
... Throughout the whole book I have availed myself freely of the leading popular works on science , but have found it im- possible to give special references , as nearly all the matter I have dealt with has long been the common.
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... give out a glowing light ? Have you not read of gnomes buried down deep in the earth , in mines , and held fast there till some fairy wand has released them , and allowed them to come to earth again ? Well , thousands and millions of ...
... give out a glowing light ? Have you not read of gnomes buried down deep in the earth , in mines , and held fast there till some fairy wand has released them , and allowed them to come to earth again ? Well , thousands and millions of ...
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... give up their warmth again whenever those crushed leaves are consumed . Now , do you believe in , and care for , my fairy - land ? Can you see in your imagination fairy Cohesion ever ready to lock atoms together when they draw very near ...
... give up their warmth again whenever those crushed leaves are consumed . Now , do you believe in , and care for , my fairy - land ? Can you see in your imagination fairy Cohesion ever ready to lock atoms together when they draw very near ...
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... give you dry facts , just such as you ask for . If you do not love her for herself she will never take you to her heart . This is the reason why so many complain that science is dry and uninteresting . They forget that though it is ...
... give you dry facts , just such as you ask for . If you do not love her for herself she will never take you to her heart . This is the reason why so many complain that science is dry and uninteresting . They forget that though it is ...
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... give out an enormous quantity of light and heat ; so enormous that it is almost im- possible to form any idea of it ... gives the most brilliant artificial light we can get such that you cannot put your eye near it without injury . Yet ...
... give out an enormous quantity of light and heat ; so enormous that it is almost im- possible to form any idea of it ... gives the most brilliant artificial light we can get such that you cannot put your eye near it without injury . Yet ...
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