The Fairy-land of ScienceD. Appleton and Company, 1903 - 252 страници |
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... star - lit sky , and each so fine and delicate that all three could be packed in a nut ? But science can tell of shells so tiny that a whole group of them will lie on the point of a pin , and many thousands be packed into a walnut ...
... star - lit sky , and each so fine and delicate that all three could be packed in a nut ? But science can tell of shells so tiny that a whole group of them will lie on the point of a pin , and many thousands be packed into a walnut ...
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... stars , billions of miles away , and actually tell you whether you could find there any of the same metals which we have on the earth . We might find hundreds of such fairy tales in the domain of science , but these three will serve as ...
... stars , billions of miles away , and actually tell you whether you could find there any of the same metals which we have on the earth . We might find hundreds of such fairy tales in the domain of science , but these three will serve as ...
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... star . How have these crystals been built up ? What power has been at work arranging their delicate forms ? In the fourth ... stars known as " snow- flakes . " And now , suppose that this snow - shower has fallen early in February ; turn ...
... star . How have these crystals been built up ? What power has been at work arranging their delicate forms ? In the fourth ... stars known as " snow- flakes . " And now , suppose that this snow - shower has fallen early in February ; turn ...
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... stars , and how quietly they keep their course from age to age ; or to visit some little flower , and ask what story it has to tell ; or to watch the clouds , and try to im- agine how the winds drive them across the sky . No person is ...
... stars , and how quietly they keep their course from age to age ; or to visit some little flower , and ask what story it has to tell ; or to watch the clouds , and try to im- agine how the winds drive them across the sky . No person is ...
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... stars and of the tiniest drop of water - that made the plant draw power from the sun , the tiny coral animal its food from the dashing waves ; that adapted the flower to the insect and the insect to the flower - is also moulding your ...
... stars and of the tiniest drop of water - that made the plant draw power from the sun , the tiny coral animal its food from the dashing waves ; that adapted the flower to the insect and the insect to the flower - is also moulding your ...
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air-atoms ammonia animal anthers atoms beautiful become bees blow body bottom Botzen called carbon carbonic acid carried cells clouds coal cold colours comes coral corolla crystals curious drop dust earth fairy fall flow flower glacier glass goes green grow hear heat heat-waves hive hole honey imagine inch insects invisible invisible waves John Herschel knob land leaves lecture Lepidodendrons light living look melt mercury miles move nature nitrogen ovule oxygen particles pass phosphorus picture piece plantlet plants pollen pollen-dust pollen-grain pollinia primrose protoplasm rain rain-drops rays rise river rock round seeds side Sigillaria sound sound-waves space stamens stars stem sticky stigma stones substance sun-waves sunbeams surface tell things tiny trees tube underclay valleys vapour violently wall waves weight wind wonderful
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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.