Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... course , the special application which our Lord made of these words . But I know , too , from experience , that the more you study nature , in all her forms the more you will find that the special application itself is deeper , wider ...
... course , the special application which our Lord made of these words . But I know , too , from experience , that the more you study nature , in all her forms the more you will find that the special application itself is deeper , wider ...
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... course , it died up here . " But if a friend said , " Not so ; it dropped from a balloon , or from the clouds ; and told you the prettiest tale of how the bird came to so strange an end , you would answer , " No , no ; I must reason ...
... course , it died up here . " But if a friend said , " Not so ; it dropped from a balloon , or from the clouds ; and told you the prettiest tale of how the bird came to so strange an end , you would answer , " No , no ; I must reason ...
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... course of the book to the lowest or earliest strata ; and I shall follow his plan . I must ask you meanwhile to remember one law or rule , which seems to me founded on common sense ; namely , that the uppermost strata are really almost ...
... course of the book to the lowest or earliest strata ; and I shall follow his plan . I must ask you meanwhile to remember one law or rule , which seems to me founded on common sense ; namely , that the uppermost strata are really almost ...
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... course of ages , the great æstuaries below London , Stirling , Chester , or Cambridge . It is river mud and sand . The river , helped by tributary brooks right and left , has brought down from the inland that enormous mass . You know ...
... course of ages , the great æstuaries below London , Stirling , Chester , or Cambridge . It is river mud and sand . The river , helped by tributary brooks right and left , has brought down from the inland that enormous mass . You know ...
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... course of ages , all the dry land of this planet , were it not baffled by another counteracting force , of which I shall speak hereafter . As you go on beyond the sea - wall , you find what it is eating up . The whole low cliff is going ...
... course of ages , all the dry land of this planet , were it not baffled by another counteracting force , of which I shall speak hereafter . As you go on beyond the sea - wall , you find what it is eating up . The whole low cliff is going ...
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