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If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses
If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses
Approximate author period: c. 1859 AD · industrial
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- John Ruskin
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- Approximate author period: c. 1859 AD · industrial
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