Great Essays of All Nations: Two Hundred and Twenty-nine Essays from All Periods and CountriesFrancis Henry Pritchard G. G. Harrap & Company Limited, 1919 - 1017 pages |
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... natural and probable causes which might produce such a terrible eruption in Nature as this has been , the like whereof was never heard of before . First , a concurrence or conjunction of sulphureous and nitrous par- ticles in the ...
... natural and probable causes which might produce such a terrible eruption in Nature as this has been , the like whereof was never heard of before . First , a concurrence or conjunction of sulphureous and nitrous par- ticles in the ...
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... nature which his honest care and pains yield to the operative . The law of nature is , Do the thing , and you shall have the power ; but they who do not the thing have not the power . Human labour , through all its forms , from the ...
... nature which his honest care and pains yield to the operative . The law of nature is , Do the thing , and you shall have the power ; but they who do not the thing have not the power . Human labour , through all its forms , from the ...
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... nature is the soul's , and be had if paid for in nature's lawful coin , that is , by labour which the heart and the head allow . I no longer wish to meet a good I do not earn , for example to find a pot of buried gold , knowing that it ...
... nature is the soul's , and be had if paid for in nature's lawful coin , that is , by labour which the heart and the head allow . I no longer wish to meet a good I do not earn , for example to find a pot of buried gold , knowing that it ...
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