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... readers should be inclined to say to themselves : Geology may be a very pleasant study , but I have no special fancy for it . I had rather learn something of botany , astronomy , chemistry , or what not - I shall answer : By all means ...
... readers should be inclined to say to themselves : Geology may be a very pleasant study , but I have no special fancy for it . I had rather learn something of botany , astronomy , chemistry , or what not - I shall answer : By all means ...
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... , and making collections of fossils , plants , insects , birds , or some other objects of natural history ; and I doubt not that such will be the case with some of my readers . Another argument , and a very strong one , in 6 TOWN GEOLOGY .
... , and making collections of fossils , plants , insects , birds , or some other objects of natural history ; and I doubt not that such will be the case with some of my readers . Another argument , and a very strong one , in 6 TOWN GEOLOGY .
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... readers to be , if he had not gained thereby somewhat of the most valuable of treasures - 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 ...
... readers to be , if he had not gained thereby somewhat of the most valuable of treasures - 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 ...
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... reading of scientific papers of your own writing , the comparing of your observations , general mutual help and mutual instructions ? Such societies are becoming numerous now , and gladly should I see one in every town . For in science ...
... reading of scientific papers of your own writing , the comparing of your observations , general mutual help and mutual instructions ? Such societies are becoming numerous now , and gladly should I see one in every town . For in science ...
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... and being able to use them . Do you wish to be free ? Then be free with true freedom ; which is again , knowing the facts of nature , and being able to use them . I dare say some of my readers , especially the 18 TOWN GEOLOGY .
... and being able to use them . Do you wish to be free ? Then be free with true freedom ; which is again , knowing the facts of nature , and being able to use them . I dare say some of my readers , especially the 18 TOWN GEOLOGY .
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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.