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... hundred times , and never thought till now how wonderful they were ! " There were great excuses , though , of old , for the contempt in which the naturalist was held ; great excuses for the pitying tone of banter with which the ...
... hundred times , and never thought till now how wonderful they were ! " There were great excuses , though , of old , for the contempt in which the naturalist was held ; great excuses for the pitying tone of banter with which the ...
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... hundred years ago , was hardly worthy of men of practical common sense . After , indeed , Linné , by his invention of generic and specific names , had made classification possible , and by his own enormous labours had shown how much ...
... hundred years ago , was hardly worthy of men of practical common sense . After , indeed , Linné , by his invention of generic and specific names , had made classification possible , and by his own enormous labours had shown how much ...
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... hundred feet up the mountain side , and with the blue Snow - Gentian , and the Canadian Ledum , which have all but vanished out of the British Isles . And what is it which tells him that strange story ? Yon smooth and rounded sur- face ...
... hundred feet up the mountain side , and with the blue Snow - Gentian , and the Canadian Ledum , which have all but vanished out of the British Isles . And what is it which tells him that strange story ? Yon smooth and rounded sur- face ...
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... hundred dark passages of hygrometry . The fisherman , too , —what an inexhaustible trea- sury of wonders lies at his feet , in the sub- aqueous world of the commonest mountain burn ! All the laws which mould a world are there busy , if ...
... hundred dark passages of hygrometry . The fisherman , too , —what an inexhaustible trea- sury of wonders lies at his feet , in the sub- aqueous world of the commonest mountain burn ! All the laws which mould a world are there busy , if ...
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... hundreds of thousands of years ago , you have at least a few thoughts over which to ruminate , which will make you at once too busy to grumble , and ashamed to grumble . Yet after all , I hardly think the lake was formed in this way ...
... hundreds of thousands of years ago , you have at least a few thoughts over which to ruminate , which will make you at once too busy to grumble , and ashamed to grumble . Yet after all , I hardly think the lake was formed in this way ...
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