Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... 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 Sandstones , " so interesting to a Scotchman ; and he will ...
... 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 Sandstones , " so interesting to a Scotchman ; and he will ...
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... perhaps , the simplest and the easiest of all physical sciences . It appeals more than any to mere common sense . It requires fewer difficult experiments , and expensive apparatus . It requires less previous knowledge of other sciences ...
... perhaps , the simplest and the easiest of all physical sciences . It appeals more than any to mere common sense . It requires fewer difficult experiments , and expensive apparatus . It requires less previous knowledge of other sciences ...
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... perhaps three or four ; and if you only see the side which suits you , day after day , month after month , you must needs become bigoted to it . Your thoughts must needs run in one groove . They cannot ( as Mr. Matthew Arnold would say ) ...
... perhaps three or four ; and if you only see the side which suits you , day after day , month after month , you must needs become bigoted to it . Your thoughts must needs run in one groove . They cannot ( as Mr. Matthew Arnold would say ) ...
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... perhaps more than any other science ; and has led men on to discoveries far more really astonishing and awful than all fancied convulsions and cataclysms . I have planned this series of papers , therefore , on Sir Charles Lyell's method ...
... perhaps more than any other science ; and has led men on to discoveries far more really astonishing and awful than all fancied convulsions and cataclysms . I have planned this series of papers , therefore , on Sir Charles Lyell's method ...
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... perhaps , they would come to a layer of soft mud , and under that to a layer of sand . Would not common sense tell you that the sand was there first , and that the water had laid down the mud on the top of it ? Then , perhaps , they ...
... perhaps , they would come to a layer of soft mud , and under that to a layer of sand . Would not common sense tell you that the sand was there first , and that the water had laid down the mud on the top of it ? Then , perhaps , they ...
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