The Fairy-land of ScienceD. Appleton and Company, 1903 - 252 страници |
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... things happen so suddenly , so mysteriously , and without man having anything to do with it ? In fairy - land , flowers blow , houses spring up like Aladdin's palace in a single night , and people are carried hundreds of miles in an ...
... things happen so suddenly , so mysteriously , and without man having anything to do with it ? In fairy - land , flowers blow , houses spring up like Aladdin's palace in a single night , and people are carried hundreds of miles in an ...
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... things which are seen , to realize those eternal truths which are unseen . If you have this gift of imagination come with me , and in these lectures we will look for the invisible fairies of nature . Watch a shower of rain . Where do ...
... things which are seen , to realize those eternal truths which are unseen . If you have this gift of imagination come with me , and in these lectures we will look for the invisible fairies of nature . Watch a shower of rain . Where do ...
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... things and small whether we wake or sleep ? Now the shower is over , the sun comes out , and the ground is soon as dry as though no rain had fallen . Tell me , what has become of the rain - drops ? Part no doubt have sunk into the ...
... things and small whether we wake or sleep ? Now the shower is over , the sun comes out , and the ground is soon as dry as though no rain had fallen . Tell me , what has become of the rain - drops ? Part no doubt have sunk into the ...
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... things around them . They need not even move from their beds , for sunbeams can fall on them there , and in a sunbeam there are stories enough to occupy a month . The fire in the grate , the lamp by the bedside , the water in the ...
... things around them . They need not even move from their beds , for sunbeams can fall on them there , and in a sunbeam there are stories enough to occupy a month . The fire in the grate , the lamp by the bedside , the water in the ...
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... things as these you must learn from books and by ex- periment . Then you must understand what is meant by chemical attraction ; and though I can explain this roughly here , you will have to make many interesting experiments before you ...
... things as these you must learn from books and by ex- periment . Then you must understand what is meant by chemical attraction ; and though I can explain this roughly here , you will have to make many interesting experiments before you ...
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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.