Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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... plant ; the plant feeds the animal ; and thus the endless circulations of the divine charity nour- ish man . The useful arts are reproductions or new com- binations by the wit of man , of the same natural benefactors . He no longer ...
... plant ; the plant feeds the animal ; and thus the endless circulations of the divine charity nour- ish man . The useful arts are reproductions or new com- binations by the wit of man , of the same natural benefactors . He no longer ...
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... plants in the pastures and roadsides , which makes the silent clock by which time tells the summer hours , will make even the divisions of the day sensible to a keen observer . The tribes of birds and insects , like the plants punctual ...
... plants in the pastures and roadsides , which makes the silent clock by which time tells the summer hours , will make even the divisions of the day sensible to a keen observer . The tribes of birds and insects , like the plants punctual ...
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... . But marry it to human history , and it is full of life . Whole floras , all Linnæus ' and Buffon's volumes , are dry catalogues of facts ; but the most trivial of VOL . I. 7 - these facts , the habit of a plant , LANGUAGE . 33.
... . But marry it to human history , and it is full of life . Whole floras , all Linnæus ' and Buffon's volumes , are dry catalogues of facts ; but the most trivial of VOL . I. 7 - these facts , the habit of a plant , LANGUAGE . 33.
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... plant , the organs , or work , or noise of an insect , applied to the illustra- tion of a fact in intellectual philosophy , or in any way associated to human nature , affects us in the most lively and agreeable manner . The seed of a plant ...
... plant , the organs , or work , or noise of an insect , applied to the illustra- tion of a fact in intellectual philosophy , or in any way associated to human nature , affects us in the most lively and agreeable manner . The seed of a plant ...
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... plants , blight , rain , in- sects , sun , it is a sacred emblem from the first cess . - - furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields . But the sailor , the shepherd , the miner , the merchant ...
... plants , blight , rain , in- sects , sun , it is a sacred emblem from the first cess . - - furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields . But the sailor , the shepherd , the miner , the merchant ...
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