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... probably the first book in which blocks were used , and it was followed , a few years later , by the printing and secret conveyance into England of Tyndale's New Testament , in fulfilment of that noble martyr's vow that " if God would ...
... probably the first book in which blocks were used , and it was followed , a few years later , by the printing and secret conveyance into England of Tyndale's New Testament , in fulfilment of that noble martyr's vow that " if God would ...
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... probably many stars move in straight lines . " Where and when have I ever said anything so absurd ? I know of no time since I was ten or twelve years old , when I have not known better , -always excepting my sleeping hours , during ...
... probably many stars move in straight lines . " Where and when have I ever said anything so absurd ? I know of no time since I was ten or twelve years old , when I have not known better , -always excepting my sleeping hours , during ...
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... probably mark the stage of depression which followed the deposit in England of the great chalky boulder clay - itself the moraine of a mighty glacier . England went down , perhaps , 2,000 feet in the west and south , but much less in ...
... probably mark the stage of depression which followed the deposit in England of the great chalky boulder clay - itself the moraine of a mighty glacier . England went down , perhaps , 2,000 feet in the west and south , but much less in ...
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... probably about the same time . Taking the year 1879 , we find that the thirty - one collieries then at work raised a little over a million tons of coal . Very near the top of the coal - measures is an interesting band of limestone ...
... probably about the same time . Taking the year 1879 , we find that the thirty - one collieries then at work raised a little over a million tons of coal . Very near the top of the coal - measures is an interesting band of limestone ...
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... probably pre - Cambrian - rocks which lie beneath the quartzite , we must walk along the ridge , which attains a height of 500 feet , to Caldicote Mill . Looking east from this point we see that the rock upon which we are standing has a ...
... probably pre - Cambrian - rocks which lie beneath the quartzite , we must walk along the ridge , which attains a height of 500 feet , to Caldicote Mill . Looking east from this point we see that the rock upon which we are standing has a ...
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