Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... England and Scotland , may learn from it to judge , roughly perhaps , but on the whole accurately , of the rocks and soils of his own neighbour- hood . He will find , it is true , in these pages , little or nothing about those " Old Red ...
... England and Scotland , may learn from it to judge , roughly perhaps , but on the whole accurately , of the rocks and soils of his own neighbour- hood . He will find , it is true , in these pages , little or nothing about those " Old Red ...
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... England , I am bound to say that such a statement , or anything like it , is contrary to the doctrines of both . It is contrary to Scripture . According to it , the earth is not cursed . For it is said in Gen. viii . 21 , " And the Lord ...
... England , I am bound to say that such a statement , or anything like it , is contrary to the doctrines of both . It is contrary to Scripture . According to it , the earth is not cursed . For it is said in Gen. viii . 21 , " And the Lord ...
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... England . For she has incorporated into her services that magnificent hymn , which our forefathers called the Song of the Three Children ; which is , as it were , the very flower and crown of the Old Testament ; the summing up of all ...
... England . For she has incorporated into her services that magnificent hymn , which our forefathers called the Song of the Three Children ; which is , as it were , the very flower and crown of the Old Testament ; the summing up of all ...
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... England at least , is the venerable Sir Charles Lyell . He was almost the first of Englishmen who taught us to see - what common sense tells us that the laws which we see at work around us now have been most probably at work since the ...
... England at least , is the venerable Sir Charles Lyell . He was almost the first of Englishmen who taught us to see - what common sense tells us that the laws which we see at work around us now have been most probably at work since the ...
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... England —and , indeed , the crust of this whole planet - is made of ; and how its rocks and soils got there . But we shall best understand how the soil in the field was made , by reasoning , as I have said , from the known to the ...
... England —and , indeed , the crust of this whole planet - is made of ; and how its rocks and soils got there . But we shall best understand how the soil in the field was made , by reasoning , as I have said , from the known to the ...
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