The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 1G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Anthologies |
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... leave to the determi- nation of more skilful naturalists . After this short history of punning , one would wonder how it should be so entirely banished out of the learned world as it is at present , especially since it had found a place ...
... leave to the determi- nation of more skilful naturalists . After this short history of punning , one would wonder how it should be so entirely banished out of the learned world as it is at present , especially since it had found a place ...
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... Leaving aside the more general phenomena , let us look now at the formation of mountains especially . I have stated in a previous article that the relative position of the stratified and unstratified rocks gives us the key to their ...
... Leaving aside the more general phenomena , let us look now at the formation of mountains especially . I have stated in a previous article that the relative position of the stratified and unstratified rocks gives us the key to their ...
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... Leaving aside for the moment the more baffling and intricate problems of the later mountain formations , I will first endeavor to explain the simpler phenomena of the earlier upheavals . Suppose that the melted materials within the ...
... Leaving aside for the moment the more baffling and intricate problems of the later mountain formations , I will first endeavor to explain the simpler phenomena of the earlier upheavals . Suppose that the melted materials within the ...
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... leaving the lower ones unbroken . We have then a valley on a mountain summit between two crests . Such a narrow passage between two crests may be changed in the course of time to a wide expansive valley by the action of the rains ...
... leaving the lower ones unbroken . We have then a valley on a mountain summit between two crests . Such a narrow passage between two crests may be changed in the course of time to a wide expansive valley by the action of the rains ...
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... leaves in the alien air as hardily as if its sinuous roots were sucking strength from their native earth . Sir Charles Lyell , in his " Second Visit to the United States , " mentions this exotic : " The tree is seventy or eighty years ...
... leaves in the alien air as hardily as if its sinuous roots were sucking strength from their native earth . Sir Charles Lyell , in his " Second Visit to the United States , " mentions this exotic : " The tree is seventy or eighty years ...
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