The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old FieldGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 264 páginas |
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... common education , by a careful use of his means , he had been able to give himself an excellent education , and to elevate himself to a position which any man , in any sphere of life , might well envy . He had seen some of his papers ...
... common education , by a careful use of his means , he had been able to give himself an excellent education , and to elevate himself to a position which any man , in any sphere of life , might well envy . He had seen some of his papers ...
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... common lot . In describing the Coccosteus , the reader will find it stated that the creature , unlike its contem- porary the Pterichthys , was unfurnished with arms . Ere arriving at such a conclusion , I had carefully examined at least ...
... common lot . In describing the Coccosteus , the reader will find it stated that the creature , unlike its contem- porary the Pterichthys , was unfurnished with arms . Ere arriving at such a conclusion , I had carefully examined at least ...
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... common observer ; and the simple and pictorial style in which they are delineated renders the work peculiarly fas- cinating . This is a reprint of the fourth English edition , without addi- tions or alterations , excepting the omission ...
... common observer ; and the simple and pictorial style in which they are delineated renders the work peculiarly fas- cinating . This is a reprint of the fourth English edition , without addi- tions or alterations , excepting the omission ...
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... common mechanic , I had fitted myself for independence . The additional experience of twenty years has not shown me that there is any necessary connection be- tween a life of toil and a life of wretchedness ; and when [ have found good ...
... common mechanic , I had fitted myself for independence . The additional experience of twenty years has not shown me that there is any necessary connection be- tween a life of toil and a life of wretchedness ; and when [ have found good ...
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... common , which should be divided as proprietors used to divide commons in Scotland half a century ago , by giving a portion to each of the bordering territories . Even the better informed geologists , who assign to it its proper place ...
... common , which should be divided as proprietors used to divide commons in Scotland half a century ago , by giving a portion to each of the bordering territories . Even the better informed geologists , who assign to it its proper place ...
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abundance acquainted Agassiz ancient animal appearance Balruddery beautiful body bone bony Caithness cartilaginous fishes Cephalaspis character Cheiracanthus Cheirolepis Christian Coal Measures coast Coccosteus color composed conglomerate Cornstone covered creature Cromarty crustacean deposit described diluvium Dipterus edge enamelled entire exhibited existing feet fins Forfarshire fossils fragments furnished geological geologist gneiss granitic hills Holoptychius huge hundred ichthyolite beds illustration inch interest jaws Lias limestone lower formation Lower Old Red marked mass minute Moray Moray Frith Murchison nodules occur ocean Old Red Sand Old Red Sandstone Oolite organisms osseous Osteolepis peculiar period plates portion present Pterichthys quarry rays reader regarded remains resembling ridge rock scales schists Scotland seems shells shore side Silurian skeleton species specimens spines stone strata stratified clay stratum style surface Sutor tail teeth thick thickly tion trilobite tubercles vast vegetable vertebral vertebral column volume writer
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Página 172 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present — advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 56 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures...
Página 234 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse: And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues •*> With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, — till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Página 1 - ... column of smoke. It rose straight as the line of a plummet for more than a thousand yards, and then, on reaching a thinner stratum of air, spread out equally on every side, like the foliage of a stately tree. Ben...
Página 211 - Of fish, that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the...
Página 56 - Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing — On superior...