The Fairy-land of ScienceD. Appleton and Company, 1903 - 252 страници |
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... become fixed and motionless . Look up at the roof of the house . There , instead of living doves . merely charmed to sleep , we have running water caught in the very act of falling and turned into transparent icicles , decorating the ...
... become fixed and motionless . Look up at the roof of the house . There , instead of living doves . merely charmed to sleep , we have running water caught in the very act of falling and turned into transparent icicles , decorating the ...
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... become of the rain - drops ? Part no doubt have sunk into the ground , and as for the rest , why you will say the sun has dried them up . Yes , but how ? The sun is more than ninety - two millions of miles away ; how has he touched the ...
... become of the rain - drops ? Part no doubt have sunk into the ground , and as for the rest , why you will say the sun has dried them up . Yes , but how ? The sun is more than ninety - two millions of miles away ; how has he touched the ...
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... become water ; and each atom of water is made of two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen . Now the metal potassium is devotedly fond of oxygen , and the moment I threw it on the water it called the fairy " chemical attraction " to help ...
... become water ; and each atom of water is made of two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen . Now the metal potassium is devotedly fond of oxygen , and the moment I threw it on the water it called the fairy " chemical attraction " to help ...
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... become a real living thing to you , and you will love the thoughts it awakens . But people often ask , what is the use of learning all this ? If you do not feel by this time how delight- ful it is to fill your mind with beautiful ...
... become a real living thing to you , and you will love the thoughts it awakens . But people often ask , what is the use of learning all this ? If you do not feel by this time how delight- ful it is to fill your mind with beautiful ...
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... become clearer and clearer till at last you see all distinctly in broad daylight . What has been happening here ? and why have the things in the room become visible by such slow de- grees ? We say that the sun is rising , but we know ...
... become clearer and clearer till at last you see all distinctly in broad daylight . What has been happening here ? and why have the things in the room become visible by such slow de- grees ? We say that the sun is rising , but we know ...
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Страница 154 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Страница 197 - That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Страница 3 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.