Scientific Lectures and EssaysMacmillan, 1893 - 336 sivua |
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Sivu 35
... sands and stones . They are laid down on each other , and not thrust under each other , because thus less force is expended in getting them into place . There are exceptions . There are cases in which nature does try to thrust one rock ...
... sands and stones . They are laid down on each other , and not thrust under each other , because thus less force is expended in getting them into place . There are exceptions . There are cases in which nature does try to thrust one rock ...
Sivu 36
... sand . Would not common sense tell you that the sand was there first , and that the water had laid down the mud on the top of it ? Then , perhaps , they might come to a layer of dead leaves . Would not common sense tell you that the ...
... sand . Would not common sense tell you that the sand was there first , and that the water had laid down the mud on the top of it ? Then , perhaps , they might come to a layer of dead leaves . Would not common sense tell you that the ...
Sivu 38
... sand . The river , helped by tributary brooks right and left , has brought down from the inland that enormous mass . You know that . You know that every flood and freshet brings a fresh load , either of fine mud or of fine sand , or ...
... sand . The river , helped by tributary brooks right and left , has brought down from the inland that enormous mass . You know that . You know that every flood and freshet brings a fresh load , either of fine mud or of fine sand , or ...
Sivu 39
... sand in a fan - shaped heap at the nearest end ; but carries the fine mud on , and holds it suspended , to be gradually deposited at the bottom in the still water ; and say to yourself : Perhaps the sands which cover so many inland ...
... sand in a fan - shaped heap at the nearest end ; but carries the fine mud on , and holds it suspended , to be gradually deposited at the bottom in the still water ; and say to yourself : Perhaps the sands which cover so many inland ...
Sivu 40
... sand hills , perhaps a bed of earth with shells and bones ; under that a bed of peat ; under that one of blue silt ; under that a buried forest , with the trees upright and rooted ; under that another layer of blue silt full of roots ...
... sand hills , perhaps a bed of earth with shells and bones ; under that a bed of peat ; under that one of blue silt ; under that a buried forest , with the trees upright and rooted ; under that another layer of blue silt full of roots ...
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Sivu 278 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Sivu 312 - While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
Sivu 3 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Sivu 11 - Iron sharpeneth iron ; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Sivu 317 - 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.
Sivu 207 - 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...
Sivu 319 - Move upward, working out the beast, And let the ape and tiger die.
Sivu 247 - 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.
Sivu 277 - Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Sivu 299 - 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.