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... natural conditions of labour and pru- dence by which such benefits could be reached alike by all , whether able to ... nature of her service were being sacrificed and lost sight of . They therefore brought forward a proposition that ...
... natural conditions of labour and pru- dence by which such benefits could be reached alike by all , whether able to ... nature of her service were being sacrificed and lost sight of . They therefore brought forward a proposition that ...
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... nature . After a time , by the help of Mildred's reports , the naturalist wrote an account of the manners and customs of humming - birds , and if any reader of this book knows anything much about that most exquisite of all birds , it ...
... nature . After a time , by the help of Mildred's reports , the naturalist wrote an account of the manners and customs of humming - birds , and if any reader of this book knows anything much about that most exquisite of all birds , it ...
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... nature , a natural eye for beauty everywhere — for beautiful conduct and behaviour in herself and others , as well as beauti- ful dress and pictures and sports ; that she had a heart for joy which ought to make herself and 142 A ...
... nature , a natural eye for beauty everywhere — for beautiful conduct and behaviour in herself and others , as well as beauti- ful dress and pictures and sports ; that she had a heart for joy which ought to make herself and 142 A ...
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... nature are often through agencies small in themselves , large in functions . This little rift in a fragment of rock , made by the thaw of a little frost - the fallen Dewdrop , -was the last of a large number of influences which had ...
... nature are often through agencies small in themselves , large in functions . This little rift in a fragment of rock , made by the thaw of a little frost - the fallen Dewdrop , -was the last of a large number of influences which had ...
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... nature , —and at length reached the point where he had been wont to rest . But a part of the path had fallen , and with it the stone with its peculiar marks , which had often amused him as he sat upon it . But what was this that caught ...
... nature , —and at length reached the point where he had been wont to rest . But a part of the path had fallen , and with it the stone with its peculiar marks , which had often amused him as he sat upon it . But what was this that caught ...
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