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... whole choir of cosmical sciences have acquired a sound- ness , severity , and fulness , which render them , as mere intellectual exercises , as valuable to a manly mind as Mathematics and Metaphysics . But how very lately have they ...
... whole choir of cosmical sciences have acquired a sound- ness , severity , and fulness , which render them , as mere intellectual exercises , as valuable to a manly mind as Mathematics and Metaphysics . But how very lately have they ...
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... whole cliff is composed of the very same stone as the pebble ridge ! Now , my good friend , how did these pebbles get three hundred yards across the lake ? Hundreds of tons , some of them three feet long : who carried them across ? The ...
... whole cliff is composed of the very same stone as the pebble ridge ! Now , my good friend , how did these pebbles get three hundred yards across the lake ? Hundreds of tons , some of them three feet long : who carried them across ? The ...
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... whole cliff has a remarkably smooth and plastered look , like a hare's run up an earth- bank ? And do you see that it is polished thus , only over the lake that as soon as the cliff abuts on the downs right and left , it forms pinnacles ...
... whole cliff has a remarkably smooth and plastered look , like a hare's run up an earth- bank ? And do you see that it is polished thus , only over the lake that as soon as the cliff abuts on the downs right and left , it forms pinnacles ...
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... whole . " Let us be content with what is within our reach . And doubt not that in these tiny creatures are mysteries more than we shall ever fathom . The zoophytes and microscopic animalcules which people every shore and every drop of ...
... whole . " Let us be content with what is within our reach . And doubt not that in these tiny creatures are mysteries more than we shall ever fathom . The zoophytes and microscopic animalcules which people every shore and every drop of ...
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... whole range of British science . " I question , nevertheless , whether he would not have lost more than he would have gained by a different training . It might have made him a more learned systematizer ; but would it have quickened in ...
... whole range of British science . " I question , nevertheless , whether he would not have lost more than he would have gained by a different training . It might have made him a more learned systematizer ; but would it have quickened in ...
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