Scientific Lectures and EssaysMacmillan, 1893 - Broj stranica: 336 |
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... vast machine , ruthless though beneficent , among the wheels of which if we entangle ourselves in our rash ignorance , they will not stop to set us free , but crush us , as they have crushed whole nations and whole races ere now , to ...
... vast machine , ruthless though beneficent , among the wheels of which if we entangle ourselves in our rash ignorance , they will not stop to set us free , but crush us , as they have crushed whole nations and whole races ere now , to ...
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... vast ignorance com- pared with the vast amount that there is to be learned in such a universe as this . Men who are accustomed to look at both sides of a question ; who , instead of making up their minds in haste like bigots and ...
... vast ignorance com- pared with the vast amount that there is to be learned in such a universe as this . Men who are accustomed to look at both sides of a question ; who , instead of making up their minds in haste like bigots and ...
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... vast tableland ; and is hewing it down still , winter after winter , till some day , where the snow Alps now stand , there shall be rolling uplands of rich cultivable soil . So much for the mechanical action of rain , in the shape of ...
... vast tableland ; and is hewing it down still , winter after winter , till some day , where the snow Alps now stand , there shall be rolling uplands of rich cultivable soil . So much for the mechanical action of rain , in the shape of ...
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... vast sheets of land at both the north and south poles ; at work , too , on every high mountain range in the world , and therefore a very common natural force ; and suppose that this force would explain all the facts , namely— How the ...
... vast sheets of land at both the north and south poles ; at work , too , on every high mountain range in the world , and therefore a very common natural force ; and suppose that this force would explain all the facts , namely— How the ...
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... vast deposits of boulder and shingle , which would be in time sawn through and sorted over by the rivers . And if the sea - bottom outside were upheaved , and became dry land , we should find on it the remains of the mud from under the ...
... vast deposits of boulder and shingle , which would be in time sawn through and sorted over by the rivers . And if the sea - bottom outside were upheaved , and became dry land , we should find on it the remains of the mud from under the ...
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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.