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... wind blows over it ? But have you never seen this water spell - bound and motionless ? Look out of the window some cold frosty morning in winter , at the little brook which yesterday was flowing gently past the house , and see how still ...
... wind blows over it ? But have you never seen this water spell - bound and motionless ? Look out of the window some cold frosty morning in winter , at the little brook which yesterday was flowing gently past the house , and see how still ...
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... wind as it blows , look at the clouds rolling overhead , and the waves rippling on the pond at your feet . Hearken to the brook as it flows by , watch the flower - buds opening one by one , and then ask yourself , " How all this is done ...
... wind as it blows , look at the clouds rolling overhead , and the waves rippling on the pond at your feet . Hearken to the brook as it flows by , watch the flower - buds opening one by one , and then ask yourself , " How all this is done ...
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... wind passed by and chilled the air . Then , when there was no longer so much heat , another invisible force , cohesion , which is always ready and waiting , seized on the tiny particles at once , and locked them together in a drop , the ...
... wind passed by and chilled the air . Then , when there was no longer so much heat , another invisible force , cohesion , which is always ready and waiting , seized on the tiny particles at once , and locked them together in a drop , the ...
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... wind , and care to learn why it blows ; if you ask the little flower why it opens in the sunshine and closes in the storm ; and if when you find questions you cannot answer , you will take the trouble to hunt out in books , or make ...
... wind , and care to learn why it blows ; if you ask the little flower why it opens in the sunshine and closes in the storm ; and if when you find questions you cannot answer , you will take the trouble to hunt out in books , or make ...
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... winds drive them across the sky . No person is so independent as he who can find interest in a bare 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 ...
... winds drive them across the sky . No person is so independent as he who can find interest in a bare 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 ...
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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.