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... namely , that inductive habit of mind , that power of judging fairly of facts , without which no good or lasting work will be done , whether in physical science , in social science , in politics , in philosophy , in philology , or in ...
... namely , that inductive habit of mind , that power of judging fairly of facts , without which no good or lasting work will be done , whether in physical science , in social science , in politics , in philosophy , in philology , or in ...
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... namely , the soil ; intending , if my readers do me the honour to read the papers which follow , to lead them downward , as it were , into the earth ; deeper and deeper in each paper , to rocks and minerals which are probably less known ...
... namely , the soil ; intending , if my readers do me the honour to read the papers which follow , to lead them downward , as it were , into the earth ; deeper and deeper in each paper , to rocks and minerals which are probably less known ...
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... namely , that the uppermost strata are really almost always the newest ; that when two or more layers , whether of rock or earth - or indeed two stones in the street , or two sheets on a bed , or two books on a table -any two or more ...
... namely , that the uppermost strata are really almost always the newest ; that when two or more layers , whether of rock or earth - or indeed two stones in the street , or two sheets on a bed , or two books on a table -any two or more ...
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... namely— How the stones got here ; How they were scratched and rounded ; How they were imbedded in clay ; because it is notoriously , and before men's eyes now , carrying great stones hundreds of miles , and scratching and rounding them ...
... namely— How the stones got here ; How they were scratched and rounded ; How they were imbedded in clay ; because it is notoriously , and before men's eyes now , carrying great stones hundreds of miles , and scratching and rounding them ...
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... namely , vegetable matter ? They have a common origin — namely , woody fibre . And coal , or rather culm , is the last link in a series of transformations from growing vegetation ? " This is our first theory . Let us try to verify it ...
... namely , vegetable matter ? They have a common origin — namely , woody fibre . And coal , or rather culm , is the last link in a series of transformations from growing vegetation ? " This is our first theory . Let us try to verify it ...
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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.