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Página 27
... stand . That is my charter as a student of Natural Science . As long as that is sung in an English church , I have a right to investigate Nature boldly without stint or stay , and to call on all who have the will , to investigate her ...
... stand . That is my charter as a student of Natural Science . As long as that is sung in an English church , I have a right to investigate Nature boldly without stint or stay , and to call on all who have the will , to investigate her ...
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... stand , there shall be rolling uplands of rich cultivable soil . So much for the mechanical action of rain , in the shape of ice . Now a few words on its chemical action . Rain water is seldom pure . It carries in it carbonic acid ; and ...
... stand , there shall be rolling uplands of rich cultivable soil . So much for the mechanical action of rain , in the shape of ice . Now a few words on its chemical action . Rain water is seldom pure . It carries in it carbonic acid ; and ...
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... stand something of the spot on which he lives , whence they come , you will be shown either a gravel - pit or a clay - pit . In the gravel the pebbles and boulders lie mixed with sand , as they do in the railway cutting just south of ...
... stand something of the spot on which he lives , whence they come , you will be shown either a gravel - pit or a clay - pit . In the gravel the pebbles and boulders lie mixed with sand , as they do in the railway cutting just south of ...
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... stands , I must give up common sense and reason as deceitful and useless faculties ; and believe nothing , not even the evidence of my own senses . And now , have I , or have I not , fulfilled the promise which I made - rashly , I dare ...
... stands , I must give up common sense and reason as deceitful and useless faculties ; and believe nothing , not even the evidence of my own senses . And now , have I , or have I not , fulfilled the promise which I made - rashly , I dare ...
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... stands out of the sea near us there has been wear and tear enough to account for any quantity of sand deposit . As a single instance -It is a provable and proven fact - as you may see from Mr. Ramsay's survey of North Wales - that over ...
... stands out of the sea near us there has been wear and tear enough to account for any quantity of sand deposit . As a single instance -It is a provable and proven fact - as you may see from Mr. Ramsay's survey of North Wales - that over ...
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age of ice ancient beautiful become beds believe beneath bottom boulders Cambrian carbonic acid chalk coal common sense coral deposited Dogmersfield dread earth earthquakes England explain facts fancy fear flora forests fossils geologists geology glacier gravel gravel-pit Greenland grow habit of mind human island Keuper laid lava laws layers least lime limestone live London clay look miles millstone grit Moritz Wagner mountains natural history Natural Science natural theology North Odiham Old Red sandstone once pebbles perhaps physical science plants and animals probably proof question race rain readers reason Red sandstone reverence rivers rocks round sand scientific Scotland Scripture shells Silurian slate Snowdon Snowdonia soil species stones strange strata superstition suppose surely tell theory things thousand trees tropic true unknown upheaved vast vegetable volcanic Wales wasps whole words yourselves
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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.