The Childhood of the World: A Simple Account of Man in Early TimesMacmillan and Company, 1873 - 118 من الصفحات |
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... light has taken a thousand years to reach the earth , but which also tell us what metals are in the sun and other stars ; man has not the swiftness of the deer , but he has the power of making steam - engines to carry him sixty miles in ...
... light has taken a thousand years to reach the earth , but which also tell us what metals are in the sun and other stars ; man has not the swiftness of the deer , but he has the power of making steam - engines to carry him sixty miles in ...
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... light show how decided was the progress which man had made . The lake - dwellers had learned to cultivate wheat , to store up food for winter use , to weave garments of flax , and to tame the most useful animals , such as the horse ...
... light show how decided was the progress which man had made . The lake - dwellers had learned to cultivate wheat , to store up food for winter use , to weave garments of flax , and to tame the most useful animals , such as the horse ...
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... light by day , and the moon and stars their light by night . Science illumines with new beauty the grand thoughts of the star - watching poet of old , who sang , " If I ascend up into heaven , Thou art there ; if I make my bed in the ...
... light by day , and the moon and stars their light by night . Science illumines with new beauty the grand thoughts of the star - watching poet of old , who sang , " If I ascend up into heaven , Thou art there ; if I make my bed in the ...
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... Light , " by the name still heard in Christian . churches and Indian temples . That name is Deity . It comes from a very ancient word by which these people spoke of the sky , and which was afterwards applied to Him who dwells in the sky ...
... Light , " by the name still heard in Christian . churches and Indian temples . That name is Deity . It comes from a very ancient word by which these people spoke of the sky , and which was afterwards applied to Him who dwells in the sky ...
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... light away ; the moon at regular times growing from sickle - shape to full round orb ; * then each night the stars , few or many , bursting out like sparks struck off the wheels of the * Moon means the measurer , hence our word month ...
... light away ; the moon at regular times growing from sickle - shape to full round orb ; * then each night the stars , few or many , bursting out like sparks struck off the wheels of the * Moon means the measurer , hence our word month ...
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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...