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... surely to this truth . The civilised world is learning , thank God , more and more of the importance of physical science ; year by year , thank God , it is learning to live more and more according to those laws of physical science ...
... surely to this truth . The civilised world is learning , thank God , more and more of the importance of physical science ; year by year , thank God , it is learning to live more and more according to those laws of physical science ...
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... surely crumbling the whole of Northern Europe and America to powder . Do you doubt me ? I say nothing but what you can judge of yourselves . The next time you go up any mountain , look at the loose broken stones with which the top is ...
... surely crumbling the whole of Northern Europe and America to powder . Do you doubt me ? I say nothing but what you can judge of yourselves . The next time you go up any mountain , look at the loose broken stones with which the top is ...
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... surely say - If this be granite , it has most probably come from a granite mountain ; if this be grit , from a grit- stone mountain , and so on with the whole list . Why are we to go out of our way to seek improbable explanations , when ...
... surely say - If this be granite , it has most probably come from a granite mountain ; if this be grit , from a grit- stone mountain , and so on with the whole list . Why are we to go out of our way to seek improbable explanations , when ...
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... surely , roll a boulder stone a hundred miles . Now , suppose that there was a force , an agent , known - luckily for you , not to you - but known too well to sailors and travellers ; a force which is at work over the vast sheets of ...
... surely , roll a boulder stone a hundred miles . Now , suppose that there was a force , an agent , known - luckily for you , not to you - but known too well to sailors and travellers ; a force which is at work over the vast sheets of ...
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... and dry on mountain ridges and promontories , upon rocks of a totally different kind . Some of my readers surely recollect Wordsworth's noble lines about these mysterious wanderers , of which he had seen many a 58 [ II . TOWN GEOLOGY .
... and dry on mountain ridges and promontories , upon rocks of a totally different kind . Some of my readers surely recollect Wordsworth's noble lines about these mysterious wanderers , of which he had seen many a 58 [ II . TOWN GEOLOGY .
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Pasajes populares
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.