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" To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. "
The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art - Page 14
1871
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Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution (Biology) - 1870 - 444 pages
...seek the beauties of natural objects, instead of trusting to chance to force them on our attention. To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country,...abundant in this life, that we can afford to despise this or any other source of them. We should fear being banished for our neglect to that limbo, where...
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Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1874 - 408 pages
...seek the beauties of natural objects, instead of trusting to chance to force them on our attention. To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country...place in his hands a catalogue of those which are wortL turning round. Surely our innocent pleasures are not so abundant in this life, that we can afford...
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A Practical Reader: With Exercises in Vocal Culture

Caroline Bigelow Le Row - Elocution - 1882 - 222 pages
...I am convinced, take a profound hold upon practical life by its influence over our finer feelings. To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country...through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and...
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Essex Naturalist: Being the Journal of the Essex Field Club, Volumes 7-8

Biology - 1893 - 508 pages
...fragment of rainbow, the windows of the workers in w/u'se hearts rests the ccn'cnant of peace" RUSKIX. "To a person uninstructed in natural history, his...with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which hai>e their faces turned to the wall. Tenth him something of natural history, and you place in his...
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Science and Education: Essays

Thomas Henry Huxley - Education - 1896 - 474 pages
...seek the beauties of natural objects, instead of trusting to chance to force them on our attention. To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country...abundant in this life, that we can afford to despise this or any other source of them. We should fear being banished for our neglect to that limbo, where...
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Science and Education

Huxley, Thomas H. - 1898
...seek the beauties of natural objects, instead of trusting to chance to force them on our attention. To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country...abundant in this life, that we can afford to despise this or any other source of them. We should fear being banished for our neglect to that limbo, where...
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Elements of Rhetoric: A Course in Plain Prose Composition

Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English language - 1898 - 426 pages
...seek the beauties of natural objects, instead of trusting to chance to force them on our attention. To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country...abundant in this life, that we can afford to despise this or any other source of them. We should fear being banished for our neglect to that limbo, where...
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The Art of Teaching

David Salmon - Teaching - 1898 - 310 pages
...stages the cultivation of the powers of generalisation, classification, and inductive reasoning. 1 walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works...you place in his hands a catalogue of those which arc worth turning round.'—Huxley : Science and Education Essays, p. 63. 1 ' What makes object lessons...
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Elements of Rhetoric: A Course in Plain Prose Composition

Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English language - 1898 - 412 pages
...seek the beauties of natural objects, instead of trusting to chance to force them on our attention. To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country...through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, niuetenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and...
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The Art of Teaching

David Salmon - Teaching - 1898 - 314 pages
...gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wa'l. Teach him something of natural history, and you place...catalogue of those which are worth turning round. ' — -Huxley : Science and Education Essays, p. 63. 1 ' What makes object lessons valuable, pleasant,...
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