The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old FieldGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 264 páginas |
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... give his left hand to possess such powers of description as this man ; and if it pleased Providence to spare his useful life , he , if any one , would certainly render science attractive and popular , and du equal service to theology ...
... give his left hand to possess such powers of description as this man ; and if it pleased Providence to spare his useful life , he , if any one , would certainly render science attractive and popular , and du equal service to theology ...
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... give a factitious reputation to so many writers of the day , his style has a classic purity and ele- gance , which remind one of Goldsmith and Irving , while there is an ease and a naturalness in the illustrations of the imagination ...
... give a factitious reputation to so many writers of the day , his style has a classic purity and ele- gance , which remind one of Goldsmith and Irving , while there is an ease and a naturalness in the illustrations of the imagination ...
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... give Color to it . The Credulity of Unbelief . - M. Maillet and his Fish - birds . - Geo- logical Argument . - The Present incomplete without the Past . Intermediate Links of Creation . - Organisms of the Lower Old Red Sandstone . — The ...
... give Color to it . The Credulity of Unbelief . - M. Maillet and his Fish - birds . - Geo- logical Argument . - The Present incomplete without the Past . Intermediate Links of Creation . - Organisms of the Lower Old Red Sandstone . — The ...
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... give so pleasing an earnest of whatever is mild and genial in the better half of the year . All the workmen rested at midday , and I went to enjoy my half- hour alone on a mossy knoll in the neighboring wood , which commands through the ...
... give so pleasing an earnest of whatever is mild and genial in the better half of the year . All the workmen rested at midday , and I went to enjoy my half- hour alone on a mossy knoll in the neighboring wood , which commands through the ...
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... give up the Old Red Sandstone , " said an ingenious foreigner to Mr. Murchison , when on a visit to England about four years ago , and whose celebrity among his - own countrymen rested chiefly on his researches in the THE OLD RED ...
... give up the Old Red Sandstone , " said an ingenious foreigner to Mr. Murchison , when on a visit to England about four years ago , and whose celebrity among his - own countrymen rested chiefly on his researches in the THE OLD RED ...
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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...