The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old FieldGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 264 páginas |
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... examination . He has stripped even of its semblance of truth , and restored to the Creator , as governor cf the universe , that power and those functions which he was supposed to have resigned at its birth . *** The earth has still to ...
... examination . He has stripped even of its semblance of truth , and restored to the Creator , as governor cf the universe , that power and those functions which he was supposed to have resigned at its birth . *** The earth has still to ...
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... examine and describe . Hence an acquaintance , I am afraid all too slight , with phenomena which , if intrinsically of interest , may be found to have also the interest of novelty to recommend them , and with organisms which , though ...
... examine and describe . Hence an acquaintance , I am afraid all too slight , with phenomena which , if intrinsically of interest , may be found to have also the interest of novelty to recommend them , and with organisms which , though ...
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... examined at least a hundred different Coccostci ; but the positive evidence of one specimen outweighs the negative evidence of a hun- dred ; and I have just learned from a friend in the north , ( Mr. Patrick Duff , of Elgin , ) that a ...
... examined at least a hundred different Coccostci ; but the positive evidence of one specimen outweighs the negative evidence of a hun- dred ; and I have just learned from a friend in the north , ( Mr. Patrick Duff , of Elgin , ) that a ...
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... examined fail to show the minuter details . Fig . 2 , Glyptolepis leptopterus . Fig . 3 , Single scale of the creature , showing its rustic style of ornament . Fig . 4 , Scale with a nail - like attachment . Fig . 5 , Under side of ...
... examined fail to show the minuter details . Fig . 2 , Glyptolepis leptopterus . Fig . 3 , Single scale of the creature , showing its rustic style of ornament . Fig . 4 , Scale with a nail - like attachment . Fig . 5 , Under side of ...
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... examining them . The one was a pretty cock goldfinch , with its hood of vermilion , and its wings inlaid with the gold to which it owes its name , as unsoiled and smooth as if it had been preserved for a mu- seum . The other , a ...
... examining them . The one was a pretty cock goldfinch , with its hood of vermilion , and its wings inlaid with the gold to which it owes its name , as unsoiled and smooth as if it had been preserved for a mu- seum . The other , a ...
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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...