Scientific Lectures and EssaysMacmillan, 1893 - Broj stranica: 336 |
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... facts . Such a guide ( and none better ) the young man will find in Sir Charles Lyell's " Student's Elements of Geology . " I have tried rather to teach the method of geology , than its facts ; to furnish the student with a key to all ...
... facts . Such a guide ( and none better ) the young man will find in Sir Charles Lyell's " Student's Elements of Geology . " I have tried rather to teach the method of geology , than its facts ; to furnish the student with a key to all ...
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... facts of any kind whatsoever . I say - facts of any kind whatsoever . If any of my readers should be inclined to say to themselves : Geology may be a very pleasant study , but I have no special fancy for it . I had rather learn ...
... facts of any kind whatsoever . I say - facts of any kind whatsoever . If any of my readers should be inclined to say to themselves : Geology may be a very pleasant study , but I have no special fancy for it . I had rather learn ...
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... facts , the increased knowledge of this planet on which we live , is very valuable just now ; valuable certainly to all who do not wish their children and their younger brothers to know more about the universe than they do . Natural ...
... facts , the increased knowledge of this planet on which we live , is very valuable just now ; valuable certainly to all who do not wish their children and their younger brothers to know more about the universe than they do . Natural ...
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... facts ; and it is gaining by so doing , year by year , more and more of health and wealth ; of peaceful and comfortable , even of graceful . and elevating , means of life for fresh millions . If you want to know what the study of ...
... facts ; and it is gaining by so doing , year by year , more and more of health and wealth ; of peaceful and comfortable , even of graceful . and elevating , means of life for fresh millions . If you want to know what the study of ...
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... facts , without which no good or lasting work will be done , whether in physical science , in social science , in politics , in philosophy , in philology , or in history . But more : let me urge you to study Natural Science , on grounds ...
... facts , without which no good or lasting work will be done , whether in physical science , in social science , in politics , in philosophy , in philology , or in history . But more : let me urge you to study Natural Science , on grounds ...
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Stranica 278 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Stranica 312 - While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
Stranica 3 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Stranica 11 - Iron sharpeneth iron ; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Stranica 317 - My substance, was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes, did see my substance, yet being imperfect ; and, in thy book, all my members, were written, which, in continuance, were fashioned, when, as yet, there was none of them.
Stranica 207 - As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself...
Stranica 319 - Move upward, working out the beast, And let the ape and tiger die.
Stranica 247 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Stranica 277 - Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Stranica 299 - For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things which are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.