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... leaves . Even the damp of your own breath lies rigid and still on the window - pane frozen into delicate patterns like fern- leaves of ice . All this water was yesterday flowing busily , or falling drop by drop , or floating invisibly ...
... leaves . Even the damp of your own breath lies rigid and still on the window - pane frozen into delicate patterns like fern- leaves of ice . All this water was yesterday flowing busily , or falling drop by drop , or floating invisibly ...
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... leaves and add to its stalk day by day ? What fairies are at work here ? First there is the hidden fairy " life , " and of her even our wisest men know but little . But they know something of her way of working , and in Lecture VII . we ...
... leaves and add to its stalk day by day ? What fairies are at work here ? First there is the hidden fairy " life , " and of her even our wisest men know but little . But they know something of her way of working , and in Lecture VII . we ...
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... leaves . Then the plants died and were buried deep in the earth and the sunbeams with them ; and like the gnomes they lay imprisoned till the coals were dug out by the miners , and brought to your grate ; and just now you yourself took ...
... leaves . Then the plants died and were buried deep in the earth and the sunbeams with them ; and like the gnomes they lay imprisoned till the coals were dug out by the miners , and brought to your grate ; and just now you yourself took ...
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... leaves , holding them ready to 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 ...
... leaves , holding them ready to 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 ...
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... leaf : part of its waves bound straight back from it to our eye and make us see the surface of the leaf , but the rest go right into the leaf itself , and there some of them are used up and kept prisoners . The red , orange , yellow ...
... leaf : part of its waves bound straight back from it to our eye and make us see the surface of the leaf , but the rest go right into the leaf itself , and there some of them are used up and kept prisoners . The red , orange , yellow ...
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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.
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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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