Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 sider |
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... true history of the bit of chalk which every carpenter carries about in his breeches - pocket , though ignorant of all other history , is likely , if he will think his knowledge out to its ultimate results , to have a truer , and ...
... true history of the bit of chalk which every carpenter carries about in his breeches - pocket , though ignorant of all other history , is likely , if he will think his knowledge out to its ultimate results , to have a truer , and ...
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... true , may be cultivated solely for its own sake , and to a certain class of minds the acquisition of abstract truths - the pure pleasure of know- ing - may be sufficient reward . But to another class differ- ently trained , or , it may ...
... true , may be cultivated solely for its own sake , and to a certain class of minds the acquisition of abstract truths - the pure pleasure of know- ing - may be sufficient reward . But to another class differ- ently trained , or , it may ...
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... true that chemical and mechanical tests may often be applied for the same purpose with effect , but there are cases - need we point to many of the public buildings of our own coun- try - where such tests have signally failed , and where ...
... true that chemical and mechanical tests may often be applied for the same purpose with effect , but there are cases - need we point to many of the public buildings of our own coun- try - where such tests have signally failed , and where ...
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... true he may , in each special case , appeal to the skilled geologist , but even the appreciation of that advice will depend in a great measure on his acquaintance with the principles of geological science . No doubt , with the aid of ...
... true he may , in each special case , appeal to the skilled geologist , but even the appreciation of that advice will depend in a great measure on his acquaintance with the principles of geological science . No doubt , with the aid of ...
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... the soils are either derived from , or have fixed relations to , the rocks beneath them , the farmer may , in like manner , derive important hints from a study of geology . It may be quite true 28 CHIPS AND CHAPTERS .
... the soils are either derived from , or have fixed relations to , the rocks beneath them , the farmer may , in like manner , derive important hints from a study of geology . It may be quite true 28 CHIPS AND CHAPTERS .
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Side 135 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
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