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... never gets paid , in most cases , at all . But as for mankind thriving by common sense : they have not thriven by common sense , because they have not used their common sense according to that regulated method which is called science ...
... never gets paid , in most cases , at all . But as for mankind thriving by common sense : they have not thriven by common sense , because they have not used their common sense according to that regulated method which is called science ...
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... never saw I yet an observation- shop , nor a common - sense shop either . And if any man says , " We must buy books : " I answer , a poor man now can obtain better scientific books than a duke or a prince could sixty years ago , simply ...
... never saw I yet an observation- shop , nor a common - sense shop either . And if any man says , " We must buy books : " I answer , a poor man now can obtain better scientific books than a duke or a prince could sixty years ago , simply ...
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... never visited , whither the Alpine snow - peaks do not rise , even there it will be obeying physical laws which we term hastily laws of Nature , but which are really the laws of God : and if it go down into the physical abyss ; if it be ...
... never visited , whither the Alpine snow - peaks do not rise , even there it will be obeying physical laws which we term hastily laws of Nature , but which are really the laws of God : and if it go down into the physical abyss ; if it be ...
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... - ever strange or novel , beautiful or awful , the dis- coveries we make may be , we are only following the Word whithersoever He may lead us ; and that He can never lead us amiss . I. THE SOIL OF THE FIELD . * My dear 28 TOWN GEOLOGY .
... - ever strange or novel , beautiful or awful , the dis- coveries we make may be , we are only following the Word whithersoever He may lead us ; and that He can never lead us amiss . I. THE SOIL OF THE FIELD . * My dear 28 TOWN GEOLOGY .
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... never suspected or missed from the hills around . Again , by the time the rain has sunk through the soil , it is still less pure . It carries with it not only carbonic acid , but acids produced by decaying vegetables - by 42 [ I. TOWN ...
... never suspected or missed from the hills around . Again , by the time the rain has sunk through the soil , it is still less pure . It carries with it not only carbonic acid , but acids produced by decaying vegetables - by 42 [ I. TOWN ...
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Página 284 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Página 318 - While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
Página 9 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Página 17 - Iron sharpeneth iron ; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Página 323 - My substance, was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes, did see my substance, yet being imperfect ; and, in thy book, all my members, were written, which, in continuance, were fashioned, when, as yet, there was none of them.
Página 213 - As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself...
Página 253 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Página 283 - Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Página 305 - For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things which are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.
Página 285 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.