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... moral from these facts . Let him not despair , though the road to learning appear long and difficult .. Let him not desist , though the hill of science seems impossible to ascend . As one foot placed before the other , with unremitting ...
... moral from these facts . Let him not despair , though the road to learning appear long and difficult .. Let him not desist , though the hill of science seems impossible to ascend . As one foot placed before the other , with unremitting ...
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... the human spirit ? Shall the insect display such a glorious phenomenon , and no moral attend the miracle ? There is nothing made , there is no- thing performed in vain . The worm , that passes from the dull grub to OF SUMMER . 19.
... the human spirit ? Shall the insect display such a glorious phenomenon , and no moral attend the miracle ? There is nothing made , there is no- thing performed in vain . The worm , that passes from the dull grub to OF SUMMER . 19.
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... moral as well as its use . It proves what metamorphosis may occur . If to the minutest , if to the most insignificant of animated creatures , wherefore not to the most lordly ? Wherefore not to man ? Why shall not man revive from the ...
... moral as well as its use . It proves what metamorphosis may occur . If to the minutest , if to the most insignificant of animated creatures , wherefore not to the most lordly ? Wherefore not to man ? Why shall not man revive from the ...
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... moral it inculcates , and transplant into thy mind every useful hint it suggests . So shall thy life be amended by thý learning . So shall the labours of the narrater be richly overpaid . The lambs that frolic on the green pastures were ...
... moral it inculcates , and transplant into thy mind every useful hint it suggests . So shall thy life be amended by thý learning . So shall the labours of the narrater be richly overpaid . The lambs that frolic on the green pastures were ...
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