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... Throughout the whole book I have availed myself freely of the leading popular works on science , but have found it im- possible to give special references , as nearly all the matter I have dealt with has long been the common.
... Throughout the whole book I have availed myself freely of the leading popular works on science , but have found it im- possible to give special references , as nearly all the matter I have dealt with has long been the common.
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... whole group of them will lie on the point of a pin , and many thousands be packed into a walnut - shell ; and each one of these tiny structures is not the mere dress but the home of a living animal . It is a tiny , tiny shell- palace ...
... whole group of them will lie on the point of a pin , and many thousands be packed into a walnut - shell ; and each one of these tiny structures is not the mere dress but the home of a living animal . It is a tiny , tiny shell- palace ...
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... whole of Greece , but more than a million times bigger than the whole world ! Our world itself is a very large place , so large that our own country looks only like a tiny speck upon it , and an express train would take nearly a month ...
... whole of Greece , but more than a million times bigger than the whole world ! Our world itself is a very large place , so large that our own country looks only like a tiny speck upon it , and an express train would take nearly a month ...
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... whole of the inside of Fig . 4 , if it were a globe ! One of the best ways to form an idea of the whole size of the sun is to imagine it to be hollow , like an air - ball , and then see how many earths it would take to fill it . You ...
... whole of the inside of Fig . 4 , if it were a globe ! One of the best ways to form an idea of the whole size of the sun is to imagine it to be hollow , like an air - ball , and then see how many earths it would take to fill it . You ...
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... whole ) does nearly all the work of our world . * In order to see how powerful the sun's rays are , you have only to take a magnifying glass and gather them to a point on a piece of brown paper , for they will set the paper alight . Sir ...
... whole ) does nearly all the work of our world . * In order to see how powerful the sun's rays are , you have only to take a magnifying glass and gather them to a point on a piece of brown paper , for they will set the paper alight . Sir ...
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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.