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... rising out of it , then you have some real idea how moisture may be drawn up by heat from the earth . A little foreign niece of mine , only four years old , who could scarcely speak English plainly , was standing one morning near the ...
... rising out of it , then you have some real idea how moisture may be drawn up by heat from the earth . A little foreign niece of mine , only four years old , who could scarcely speak English plainly , was standing one morning near the ...
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... awe ; but even the little child who lives with nature and gazes on her with open eye , must rise in some sense or other through nature to nature's God . LECTURE II . SUNBEAMS AND THE WORK THEY DO . THE FAIRY - LAND OF SCIENCE . 25.
... awe ; but even the little child who lives with nature and gazes on her with open eye , must rise in some sense or other through nature to nature's God . LECTURE II . SUNBEAMS AND THE WORK THEY DO . THE FAIRY - LAND OF SCIENCE . 25.
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... rising , but we know very well that it is not the sun which moves , but that our earth has been turning slowly round , and bringing the little spot on which we live face to face with the great fiery ball , so that his beams can fall ...
... rising , but we know very well that it is not the sun which moves , but that our earth has been turning slowly round , and bringing the little spot on which we live face to face with the great fiery ball , so that his beams can fall ...
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... rise up into the sky , no rain ever fall , no rivers flow , and consequently no plants could grow and no animals live . All water would be in the form of snow and ice , and the earth would be one great frozen mass with nothing moving ...
... rise up into the sky , no rain ever fall , no rivers flow , and consequently no plants could grow and no animals live . All water would be in the form of snow and ice , and the earth would be one great frozen mass with nothing moving ...
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... rising up in a good wave , they run on together and make a bright line of light ; but if they meet higgledy- piggledy , one up and the other down , all in confusion , they stop each other , and then there is no light , but a line of ...
... rising up in a good wave , they run on together and make a bright line of light ; but if they meet higgledy- piggledy , one up and the other down , all in confusion , they stop each other , and then there is no light , but a line of ...
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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 11 - FIRST GREEK BOOK. Containing Exercises and Reading Lessons on the Inflexions of Substantives and Adjectives, and of the Active Verb in the Indicative Mood. With copious Vocabularies. Being the First Part of the Constructive Greek Exercises.
Page 4 - MONEY, WEIGHTS, and MEASURES of the CHIEF COMMERCIAL NATIONS IN THE WORLD, with the British Equivalents.