Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... island , not sixty miles square - precious timbers , gums , fruits , what not , enough to give em- ployment and wealth to thousands and tens of thousands , wasting for want of being known and worked — then you would see what a man who ...
... island , not sixty miles square - precious timbers , gums , fruits , what not , enough to give em- ployment and wealth to thousands and tens of thousands , wasting for want of being known and worked — then you would see what a man who ...
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... islands as perfectly as any men are likely to have it on this earth . But what I complain of is , that when men have got the freedom , three out of four of them will not use it . What ? -someone will answer- -Do you suppose that I will ...
... islands as perfectly as any men are likely to have it on this earth . But what I complain of is , that when men have got the freedom , three out of four of them will not use it . What ? -someone will answer- -Do you suppose that I will ...
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... islands , but in America , on the Continent - in a word , all over the world - such as rank , wealth , fashion , or other artificial arrangements of the world cannot give and cannot take away ; if you want to feel yourself as good as ...
... islands , but in America , on the Continent - in a word , all over the world - such as rank , wealth , fashion , or other artificial arrangements of the world cannot give and cannot take away ; if you want to feel yourself as good as ...
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... islands out of the bottom of the ocean . a sounder and wiser school of geologists now reigns ; the father of whom , in England at least , is the venerable Sir Charles Lyell . He was almost the first of Englishmen who taught us to see ...
... islands out of the bottom of the ocean . a sounder and wiser school of geologists now reigns ; the father of whom , in England at least , is the venerable Sir Charles Lyell . He was almost the first of Englishmen who taught us to see ...
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... islands and of the Continent . No water power could have lifted those stones , and tossed them up high and dry on mountain ridges and promontories , upon rocks of a totally different kind . Some of my readers surely recollect ...
... islands and of the Continent . No water power could have lifted those stones , and tossed them up high and dry on mountain ridges and promontories , upon rocks of a totally different kind . Some of my readers surely recollect ...
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