Madam How and Lady Why; Or First Lessons in Earth Lore for ChildrenMacmillan and Company, 1880 - 350 من الصفحات Explains some basic "hows and whys" in natural history and geology. |
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الصفحة 298 - Because I have called, and ye refused ; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded ; but ye have set at naught all my counsel, and would none of my reproof. I also will laugh at your calamity ; I will mock when your fear cometh.
الصفحة 156 - I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling ; And here and there a foamy flake Upon me, as I travel, With many a silvery waterbreak Above the golden gravel, — And draw them all along, and flow To join the brimming river ; For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
الصفحة 350 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
الصفحة 31 - When He prepared the heavens I was there, when He set a compass upon the face of the depth : when He established the clouds above ; when He strengthened the fountains of the deep : when He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not pass His commandment : when He appointed the foundations of the earth : then I was by Him, as one brought up with Him ; and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him ; rejoicing in the habitable parts of the earth, and my delights were with the sons...
الصفحة 31 - Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth; while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. When he prepared the heavens I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: When he established the clouds above: When he strengthened the fountains of the deep; When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment...
الصفحة viii - ... full of curiosities. He has got a piece of mistletoe, and wants to know what it is ; and he...
الصفحة 69 - Cinders and pumice-stones were falling down from the sky, and flames breaking out of the mountain above. But Pliny would go on : he said that if people were in danger it was his duty to help them ; and that he must see this strange cloud, and note down the different shapes into which it changed. Bu.t the hot ashes fell faster and faster ; the sea ebbed out suddenly, and...
الصفحة 31 - When there were no depths, I was brought forth ; When there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth : While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
الصفحة viii - Robert, where have you been walking this afternoon?" said Mr. Andrews to one of his pupils at the close of a holiday. Oh — Robert had been to Broom Heath, and round by Camp Mount, and home through the meadows. But it was very dull. He hardly saw a single person. He had much rather have gone by the turnpike-road.
الصفحة 75 - There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen: 8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.