The Childhood of the World: A Simple Account of Man in Early TimesMacmillan and Company, 1873 - 118 من الصفحات |
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... beautiful six - sided wax Icells which the bee makes are more curious than the rough hut which the chimpanzee - an African monkey - piles together ; and the tiny ants that keep plant - lice and milk them just as we keep cows to give us ...
... beautiful six - sided wax Icells which the bee makes are more curious than the rough hut which the chimpanzee - an African monkey - piles together ; and the tiny ants that keep plant - lice and milk them just as we keep cows to give us ...
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... beautiful , brightened by the smiling sunlight of God playing over its face . Now , it would be making another guess-- and , as we shall never know whether we have guessed right , what is the use of guessing ? — to say how many years ...
... beautiful , brightened by the smiling sunlight of God playing over its face . Now , it would be making another guess-- and , as we shall never know whether we have guessed right , what is the use of guessing ? — to say how many years ...
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... beautiful reason , for the names which things bear ; and it is not less strange than true , that words often tell us more of the manners and doings of people who , silent now ,. used to speak them , than we can find out from the remains ...
... beautiful reason , for the names which things bear ; and it is not less strange than true , that words often tell us more of the manners and doings of people who , silent now ,. used to speak them , than we can find out from the remains ...
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... beautiful art of making earthenware . VI . Dwellings . Besides living in caves , holes were dug in the ground , a wall being made of the earth which was thrown out , and a covering of tree - boughs put over it . Sometimes where blocks ...
... beautiful art of making earthenware . VI . Dwellings . Besides living in caves , holes were dug in the ground , a wall being made of the earth which was thrown out , and a covering of tree - boughs put over it . Sometimes where blocks ...
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... beautiful , or of what is thought to be beautiful , is theirs , and that is another thing which the brute has not . No herds of cows ever leave off feeding to admire a sunset ; and 24 [ PART I. THE CHILDHOOD.
... beautiful , or of what is thought to be beautiful , is theirs , and that is another thing which the brute has not . No herds of cows ever leave off feeding to admire a sunset ; and 24 [ PART I. THE CHILDHOOD.
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الصفحة 83 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
الصفحة 79 - For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
الصفحة 48 - The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
الصفحة 50 - A BOOK OF GOLDEN DEEDS of All Times and All Countries. Gathered and Narrated Anew. By the Author of
الصفحة 39 - Trench. — Works by R. CHENEVIX TRENCH, DD, Archbishop of Dublin. (For other Works by this Author, see THEOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL, and PHILOSOPHICAL CATALOGUES.) POEMS. Collected and arranged anew. Fcap. 8vo.
الصفحة 49 - THE BOOK OF PRAISE. From the best English Hymn Writers. Selected and arranged by LORD SELBORNE. A New and Enlarged Edition. THE FAIRY BOOK ; the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and rendered anew by the Author of
الصفحة 14 - REVIEW. GUESSES AT TRUTH. By Two BROTHERS. With Vignette, Title, and Frontispiece. New Edition, with Memoir. Fcap. 8vo. 6s.
الصفحة 11 - THE FAIRY BOOK ; the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and rendered anew by the Author of "JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN.
الصفحة 48 - Bound in extra cloth, 4s. 6d. ; morocco plain, 7s. 6d. ; morocco extra, 10s. 6d. each volume. The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
الصفحة 3 - These letters are the exact account of a lady's experience of the brighter and less practical side of colonization. They record the expeditions, adventures, and emergencies diversifying the daily life of the wife of a New Zealand sheep-farmer ; and, as each was written while the novelty and excitement of the scenes it describes were fresh upon her, they may succeed in giving here in England an adequate impression of the delight and freedom of an existence so far removed from our own highly-wrought...