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... 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 Spectator talks of " the ...
... 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 Spectator talks of " the ...
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... never before applied to them ; and thus gradually , in the last half century , the whole choir of cosmical sciences have acquired a sound- ness , severity , and fulness , which render them , as mere intellectual exercises , as valuable ...
... never before applied to them ; and thus gradually , in the last half century , the whole choir of cosmical sciences have acquired a sound- ness , severity , and fulness , which render them , as mere intellectual exercises , as valuable ...
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... never find , simply because he could never guess that they were there to be found . I do not speak merely of the rare birds which may be shot , the curious facts as to the habits of fish which may be observed , great as these pleasures ...
... never find , simply because he could never guess that they were there to be found . I do not speak merely of the rare birds which may be shot , the curious facts as to the habits of fish which may be observed , great as these pleasures ...
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... never superstitious ; wondering at the commonest , but not surprised by the most strange ; free from the idols of size and sensuous loveliness ; able to see grandeur in the minutest objects , beauty in the most ungainly ; estimating ...
... never superstitious ; wondering at the commonest , but not surprised by the most strange ; free from the idols of size and sensuous loveliness ; able to see grandeur in the minutest objects , beauty in the most ungainly ; estimating ...
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... never to behold it again . Moreover , he must keep himself free from all those perturbations of mind which not only weaken energy , but darken and confuse the inductive faculty ; from haste and laziness , from melancholy , testiness ...
... never to behold it again . Moreover , he must keep himself free from all those perturbations of mind which not only weaken energy , but darken and confuse the inductive faculty ; from haste and laziness , from melancholy , testiness ...
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