Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... 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 have to bear in mind ...
... 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 have to bear in mind ...
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... whole nations and whole races ere now , to powder . Very terrible , though very calm , is outraged Nature . Though the mills of God grind slowly , Yet they grind exceeding small ; Though He sit , and wait with patience , With exactness ...
... whole nations and whole races ere now , to powder . Very terrible , though very calm , is outraged Nature . Though the mills of God grind slowly , Yet they grind exceeding small ; Though He sit , and wait with patience , With exactness ...
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... whole army of workmen in the conversion of those substances into articles of utility . The foregoing examples might be greatly en- larged upon , and a great many others might be selected from the sciences of physics and chemistry : but ...
... whole army of workmen in the conversion of those substances into articles of utility . The foregoing examples might be greatly en- larged upon , and a great many others might be selected from the sciences of physics and chemistry : but ...
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... whole world , by practising them ourselves , when and where And I tell you that in becoming scientific men , in studying science and acquiring the scientific we can . habit of mind , you will find yourselves enjoying a PREFACE . 13.
... whole world , by practising them ourselves , when and where And I tell you that in becoming scientific men , in studying science and acquiring the scientific we can . habit of mind , you will find yourselves enjoying a PREFACE . 13.
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... whole series . It is geology : that is , the science which explains to us the rind of the earth ; of what it is made ; how it has been made . It tells us nothing of the mass of the earth . That is , properly speaking , an astronomical ...
... whole series . It is geology : that is , the science which explains to us the rind of the earth ; of what it is made ; how it has been made . It tells us nothing of the mass of the earth . That is , properly speaking , an astronomical ...
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