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... SUNBEAMS , AND THE WORK THEY DO LECTURE III . 26 THE AERIAL OCEAN IN WHICH WE LIVE .. 50 LECTURE IV . A DROP OF WATER ON ITS TRAVELS LECTURE V. THE TWO GREAT SCULPTORS - WATER AND ICE LECTURE VI . .. 73 99 THE VOICES OF NATURE , AND HOW ...
... SUNBEAMS , AND THE WORK THEY DO LECTURE III . 26 THE AERIAL OCEAN IN WHICH WE LIVE .. 50 LECTURE IV . A DROP OF WATER ON ITS TRAVELS LECTURE V. THE TWO GREAT SCULPTORS - WATER AND ICE LECTURE VI . .. 73 99 THE VOICES OF NATURE , AND HOW ...
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... sunbeams have been busy here also ; how last year's snowdrop plant caught them and stored them up in its bulb , and how now in the spring , as soon as warmth and moisture creep down into the earth , these little imprisoned sun- waves ...
... sunbeams have been busy here also ; how last year's snowdrop plant caught them and stored them up in its bulb , and how now in the spring , as soon as warmth and moisture creep down into the earth , these little imprisoned sun- waves ...
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... sunbeams and worked them into their 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 ...
... sunbeams and worked them into their 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 ...
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... sunbeams to make their leaves , holding them ready to give up their warmth again whenever those crushed leaves are ... sunbeam - waves of light and heat travelling from the sun to the earth ? Do you care to know how another strange fairy ...
... sunbeams to make their leaves , holding them ready to give up their warmth again whenever those crushed leaves are ... sunbeam - waves of light and heat travelling from the sun to the earth ? Do you care to know how another strange fairy ...
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... sunbeams can fall on them there , and in a sunbeam there are stories enough to occupy a month . The fire in the grate , the lamp by the bedside , the water in the tumbler , the fly on the ceiling above , the flower in the vase on the ...
... sunbeams can fall on them there , and in a sunbeam there are stories enough to occupy a month . The fire in the grate , the lamp by the bedside , the water in the tumbler , the fly on the ceiling above , the flower in the vase on the ...
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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.
Page 7 - HOLDSWORTH.— DEEP-SEA FISHING and FISHING BOATS. An Account of the Practical Working of the various Fisheries carried on around the British Islands. With illustrations and Descriptions of the Fishing Boats, Nets, and other gear in use; and Notices of the Principal Fishing Stations in the United Kingdom.
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.