Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... thousands of operators to transmit the telegraphic messages , and to a great increase of our commerce in nearly all its branches by the more rapid means of communication . The discovery of Voltaic electricity further led to the ...
... thousands of operators to transmit the telegraphic messages , and to a great increase of our commerce in nearly all its branches by the more rapid means of communication . The discovery of Voltaic electricity further led to the ...
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... thousands of persons who practise that process , or manufacture and prepare the various material and articles required in it . The discovery of chlorine by Scheele led to the invention of the modern processes of bleaching , and to ...
... thousands of persons who practise that process , or manufacture and prepare the various material and articles required in it . The discovery of chlorine by Scheele led to the invention of the modern processes of bleaching , and to ...
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... thousands and tens of thousands , wasting for want of being known and worked — then you would see what a man who emigrates may do , by a little sound knowledge of botany alone . And if not . Suppose that any one of you , learn- ing a ...
... thousands and tens of thousands , wasting for want of being known and worked — then you would see what a man who emigrates may do , by a little sound knowledge of botany alone . And if not . Suppose that any one of you , learn- ing a ...
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... thousands of feet - it might be , that would make no difference to your judgment . If next the boring came into quite different rocks ; into a different sort of sandstone and shales , and among them beds of coal , would you not say ...
... thousands of feet - it might be , that would make no difference to your judgment . If next the boring came into quite different rocks ; into a different sort of sandstone and shales , and among them beds of coal , would you not say ...
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... thousand feet , or any other height , into hills , what would you say then ? Would you say : " Oh , but the rock is not bottom rock ; is not under the limestone here , but higher than it . So perhaps in this part it has made a shift ...
... thousand feet , or any other height , into hills , what would you say then ? Would you say : " Oh , but the rock is not bottom rock ; is not under the limestone here , but higher than it . So perhaps in this part it has made a shift ...
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