The Children's Encyclopedia, Volum 3Arthur Mee educational book Company, 1910 |
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Pàgina 1371
... happens when anything is combined with oxygen . We know , too , that many things when they are made hot will burn in this way . If these laws were true long ago , as they are now , WHAT IS AN ELEMENTY This is a question which is 1371.
... happens when anything is combined with oxygen . We know , too , that many things when they are made hot will burn in this way . If these laws were true long ago , as they are now , WHAT IS AN ELEMENTY This is a question which is 1371.
Pàgina 1372
... happens when the sun seems to put out the fire . It is true that the brightness of the fire depends upon its getting a good supply of air ; and it might be that the sunlight in a room made the air warmer and lighter , so that the fire ...
... happens when the sun seems to put out the fire . It is true that the brightness of the fire depends upon its getting a good supply of air ; and it might be that the sunlight in a room made the air warmer and lighter , so that the fire ...
Pàgina 1382
... happens to be a sheep , or a small deer , or a big dog , we can understand that the stretch must be considerable . We do not know quite what the python can swallow . One is said to have been found dead with a full - grown goat inside it ...
... happens to be a sheep , or a small deer , or a big dog , we can understand that the stretch must be considerable . We do not know quite what the python can swallow . One is said to have been found dead with a full - grown goat inside it ...
Pàgina 1410
... happen ? Or why should a shell almost always have its opening on the right side ? Why is it ? Have you ever thought about that ? Nature is the most teasing riddle in the world , very hard to solve . Sometimes you will find one of these ...
... happen ? Or why should a shell almost always have its opening on the right side ? Why is it ? Have you ever thought about that ? Nature is the most teasing riddle in the world , very hard to solve . Sometimes you will find one of these ...
Pàgina 1423
... happens when a bird flies . The wings of the bird displace the air with every beat they make . They force the air down- wards and backwards . But every time the air resists before giving way ; it resists all the time that it is being ...
... happens when a bird flies . The wings of the bird displace the air with every beat they make . They force the air down- wards and backwards . But every time the air resists before giving way ; it resists all the time that it is being ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 1598 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 5 Thou earnest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. "In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Pàgina 1853 - Good people all of every sort, Give ear unto my song, And if you find it wondrous short, It cannot hold you long. In Islington there was a man, Of whom the world might say, That still a godly race he ran, Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes ! The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
Pàgina 1854 - A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Pàgina 1479 - The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Pàgina 1782 - HALF a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. " Forward, the Light Brigade ! " Charge for the guns ! " he said : Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. " Forward, the Light Brigade...
Pàgina 1480 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided. They were swifter than eagles; they were stronger than lions. Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights; who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
Pàgina 1598 - For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
Pàgina 1783 - Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred. Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd as they turn'd in air Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army, while All the world wonder'd : Plunged in the battery-smoke Right thro' the line they broke ; Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the sabre-stroke Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Pàgina 1598 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Pàgina 1397 - But with a crash like thunder Fell every loosened beam, And like a dam the mighty wreck Lay right athwart the stream ; And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam.