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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Page 44
... present state of our knowledge of geological phenomena with that which prevailed fifty years ago , it seems difficult to believe that so great and important a change can have been brought about in so short a time . It was on Ger- man ...
... present state of our knowledge of geological phenomena with that which prevailed fifty years ago , it seems difficult to believe that so great and important a change can have been brought about in so short a time . It was on Ger- man ...
Page 46
... present- ing , in short , all the phenomena belonging to volcanic rocks in contact with stratified materials . He again pushed his theory too far , and , inferring from the phenomena immediately about him that heat had been the chief ...
... present- ing , in short , all the phenomena belonging to volcanic rocks in contact with stratified materials . He again pushed his theory too far , and , inferring from the phenomena immediately about him that heat had been the chief ...
Page 69
... present , dissolve in me , and fall away from my conscious- ness at the moment when it returns upon itself . I feel myself then stripped and empty , like a convalescent who remembers nothing . My travels , my reading , my studies , my ...
... present , dissolve in me , and fall away from my conscious- ness at the moment when it returns upon itself . I feel myself then stripped and empty , like a convalescent who remembers nothing . My travels , my reading , my studies , my ...
Page 88
... the last time ? Then I must make you a present at parting . I will blow into your brain - box in such a way that you shall be able in future not only to remember every- • thing you have seen and heard , but that 88 ANDERSEN.
... the last time ? Then I must make you a present at parting . I will blow into your brain - box in such a way that you shall be able in future not only to remember every- • thing you have seen and heard , but that 88 ANDERSEN.
Page 89
... present - perhaps the best present possible . " I shall penetrate you so completely that you shall receive the faculty , if you wish it , to turn into rust in one night , and to crumble into dust . " The Lamp considered this a bad present ...
... present - perhaps the best present possible . " I shall penetrate you so completely that you shall receive the faculty , if you wish it , to turn into rust in one night , and to crumble into dust . " The Lamp considered this a bad present ...
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