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Arabella Burton Fisher. Frontispiece . THE FAIRY - LAND OF SCIENCE . BY ARABELLA B. GLACIER CARRYING DOWN STONES . See p . 119 . FIG . 29 .
Arabella Burton Fisher. Frontispiece . THE FAIRY - LAND OF SCIENCE . BY ARABELLA B. GLACIER CARRYING DOWN STONES . See p . 119 . FIG . 29 .
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... stones , or spouts up in the fountain , or trickles down from the roof , or shakes itself into ripples on the surface of the pond as the wind blows over it ? But have you never seen this water spell - bound and motionless ? Look out of ...
... stones , or spouts up in the fountain , or trickles down from the roof , or shakes itself into ripples on the surface of the pond as the wind blows over it ? But have you never seen this water spell - bound and motionless ? Look out of ...
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... stones , and good in everything . " And now we come to the last part of our subject . When you have reached and entered the gates of science , how are you to use and enjoy this new and beautiful land ? This is a very important question ...
... stones , and good in everything . " And now we come to the last part of our subject . When you have reached and entered the gates of science , how are you to use and enjoy this new and beautiful land ? This is a very important question ...
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... stone against the rough breakers , you will hardly rest till you know all their history . Look at that curious cir- cular island in the picture ( Fig . 3 ) , covered with palm trees ; it has a large smooth lake in the middle , and the ...
... stone against the rough breakers , you will hardly rest till you know all their history . Look at that curious cir- cular island in the picture ( Fig . 3 ) , covered with palm trees ; it has a large smooth lake in the middle , and the ...
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... stones or lumps of metal flying through the air , and taking fire by clashing against the atoms of oxygen in it . There are great numbers of these masses moving round and round the sun , and when our earth comes across their path , as ...
... stones or lumps of metal flying through the air , and taking fire by clashing against the atoms of oxygen in it . There are great numbers of these masses moving round and round the sun , and when our earth comes across their path , as ...
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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...
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