Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... prove worthy - the friends , of men who will be glad to teach you all they know , and equally glad to learn from you anything you can teach them , asking no questions about you , save , first - Is he an honest student of Nature for her ...
... prove worthy - the friends , of men who will be glad to teach you all they know , and equally glad to learn from you anything you can teach them , asking no questions about you , save , first - Is he an honest student of Nature for her ...
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... prove it to you as I go on , or to do what is far better for you : to put you in the way of proving it for yourself , by using your common sense . At the risk of seeming prolix , I must say a few more words on this matter . I have ...
... prove it to you as I go on , or to do what is far better for you : to put you in the way of proving it for yourself , by using your common sense . At the risk of seeming prolix , I must say a few more words on this matter . I have ...
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... prove for yourselves . Let me ask you this : suppose that you had proof positive that I had fallen into the river in the morning ; would not your meeting me in the evening be also proof positive that somehow or other I had in the course ...
... prove for yourselves . Let me ask you this : suppose that you had proof positive that I had fallen into the river in the morning ; would not your meeting me in the evening be also proof positive that somehow or other I had in the course ...
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... prove that . But , even if you are no mineralogist , common sense will tell you , that if they were all concreted out of the same clay , it is most likely that they would be all of the same kind , and not of a dozen or more different ...
... prove that . But , even if you are no mineralogist , common sense will tell you , that if they were all concreted out of the same clay , it is most likely that they would be all of the same kind , and not of a dozen or more different ...
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... prove for yourself — while the stone is still lying in its bed of clay . Would it not be an act of mere common sense to say - These scratches have been made by the sharp points of other stones which have rubbed against the pebbles ...
... prove for yourself — while the stone is still lying in its bed of clay . Would it not be an act of mere common sense to say - These scratches have been made by the sharp points of other stones which have rubbed against the pebbles ...
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