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... rock , a drop of water , the foam of the sea , the spider on the wall , the flower under- foot or the stars overhead . And these interests are open to everyone who enters the fairy - land of science . " Moreover , we learn from this ...
... rock , a drop of water , the foam of the sea , the spider on the wall , the flower under- foot or the stars overhead . And these interests are open to everyone who enters the fairy - land of science . " Moreover , we learn from this ...
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... rock and strikes against a passing boat . Then , when and excited they fell upon your eye , they entered it the retina and the nerves , and the image of the chair or the table was carried to your brain . Look around at all the things in ...
... rock and strikes against a passing boat . Then , when and excited they fell upon your eye , they entered it the retina and the nerves , and the image of the chair or the table was carried to your brain . Look around at all the things in ...
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... rock ? If so , you know how tight they cling . The limpet clings to the rock just in the same way as this lea- ther does to the stone ; Soaked leather lifting a stone paper- the little animal ex- weight . hausts the air inside its shell ...
... rock ? If so , you know how tight they cling . The limpet clings to the rock just in the same way as this lea- ther does to the stone ; Soaked leather lifting a stone paper- the little animal ex- weight . hausts the air inside its shell ...
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... rock ; and we can see it pressing up the mercury in the barometer and so enabling us to measure its weight . Lastly , every breath of wind that blows past us tells us how this aerial ocean is always moving to and fro on the face of the ...
... rock ; and we can see it pressing up the mercury in the barometer and so enabling us to measure its weight . Lastly , every breath of wind that blows past us tells us how this aerial ocean is always moving to and fro on the face of the ...
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... rock and stone , where it cannot sink in , and then it lies in pools till it is shaken apart again into vapour and carried off in the air . Nor is it idle here , even before it is carried up to make clouds . We have to thank this ...
... rock and stone , where it cannot sink in , and then it lies in pools till it is shaken apart again into vapour and carried off in the air . Nor is it idle here , even before it is carried up to make clouds . We have to thank this ...
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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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