Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... hundred and fifty years ago . For so only will you in your theories and your movements , draw " bills which nature will honour " -to use Mr. Carlyle's famous parable - because they are according to her unchanging laws , and not have ...
... hundred and fifty years ago . For so only will you in your theories and your movements , draw " bills which nature will honour " -to use Mr. Carlyle's famous parable - because they are according to her unchanging laws , and not have ...
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... hundred pages of that admirable book , De la BĂȘche's " Geological Observer ; " and last , but not least , a very clever little book called " Rain and Rivers , " by Colonel George Greenwood . But though rain , like rivers , is a carrier ...
... hundred pages of that admirable book , De la BĂȘche's " Geological Observer ; " and last , but not least , a very clever little book called " Rain and Rivers , " by Colonel George Greenwood . But though rain , like rivers , is a carrier ...
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... hundreds , along the coast at Scarborough . If you walk along the shore southward of that town , you will see , in the gullies of the cliff , great beds of sticky clay , stuffed full of bits of every rock between the Lake mountains and ...
... hundreds , along the coast at Scarborough . If you walk along the shore southward of that town , you will see , in the gullies of the cliff , great beds of sticky clay , stuffed full of bits of every rock between the Lake mountains and ...
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... hundred miles . Now , suppose that there was a force , an agent , known - luckily for you , not to you - but known ... hundreds of miles , and scratching and rounding them also ; carrying vast deposits of mud , too , and mixing up mud ...
... hundred miles . Now , suppose that there was a force , an agent , known - luckily for you , not to you - but known ... hundreds of miles , and scratching and rounding them also ; carrying vast deposits of mud , too , and mixing up mud ...
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... hundred feet high may project into water eight hundred feet deep . At last , when it gets out of its depth , the buoyancy of the water breaks it off in ice- bergs , which float away , at the mercy of tides and currents , often grounding ...
... hundred feet high may project into water eight hundred feet deep . At last , when it gets out of its depth , the buoyancy of the water breaks it off in ice- bergs , which float away , at the mercy of tides and currents , often grounding ...
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