The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and RevealedGould and Lincoln, 1857 - 502 páginas |
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... remains but the melancholy task of bewailing its departure , and tracing very hastily and imperfectly its track . The intellectual powers of Hugh Miller had certainly not declined . He was marked to the very last by that wonderful ...
... remains but the melancholy task of bewailing its departure , and tracing very hastily and imperfectly its track . The intellectual powers of Hugh Miller had certainly not declined . He was marked to the very last by that wonderful ...
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... remains ; but Mr. Miller demonstrated that it contains at least three successive stages , each characterized by a suite of uncouth and hith- erto unknown fishes . A few years later he published his " Foot- prints of the Creator . " This ...
... remains ; but Mr. Miller demonstrated that it contains at least three successive stages , each characterized by a suite of uncouth and hith- erto unknown fishes . A few years later he published his " Foot- prints of the Creator . " This ...
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... remains of this truly great man were consigned to the grave on Monday , amid the most marked demonstrations of sorrow on the part of the entire community . The private company , numbering about sixty individuals , met at Shrub Mount ...
... remains of this truly great man were consigned to the grave on Monday , amid the most marked demonstrations of sorrow on the part of the entire community . The private company , numbering about sixty individuals , met at Shrub Mount ...
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... remains of the deceased , was furnished by the circumstance that upwards of one hundred gentlemen , many of whom had , so recently as the previous Tuesday , listened to the read- ing of one of the ablest of his lectures , by the Rev. Mr ...
... remains of the deceased , was furnished by the circumstance that upwards of one hundred gentlemen , many of whom had , so recently as the previous Tuesday , listened to the read- ing of one of the ablest of his lectures , by the Rev. Mr ...
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... remains of the Upper Silurians of England , the oldest yet known , consist chiefly of spore - like bodies , which belonged , says Dr. Hooker , to Lycopodiacere , - an order of the second or acrogenic class . And , in the second great ...
... remains of the Upper Silurians of England , the oldest yet known , consist chiefly of spore - like bodies , which belonged , says Dr. Hooker , to Lycopodiacere , - an order of the second or acrogenic class . And , in the second great ...
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The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two ... Hugh Miller Vista completa - 1857 |
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Acrogens ages ancient animals anti-geologists appearance argument bear beds birds Carboniferous character Christian cloth club mosses Coal Measures Coccosteus coniferous conifers creation creatures deluge deposits developed dicotyledonous Divine division earth Edinburgh elephant Eocene evidence exhibited existing extinct fact feet ferns fishes Flood flora forests formations fossil fronds furnished geologic geologist globe greatly heavens Helmsdale Hugh Miller human hundred hyænas Illustrations inches known labors land least length Lepidodendron living Lower Old Red mammals mayhap Miocene molluscs Mosaic nature occur ocean Old Red Sandstone Oolitic organisms original Paleozoic peculiar period plants portion present principle race regarded remains remarkable represented reptiles resembles revelation rocks says scarce Scotland Scripture seems shells Sigillaria Silurian species specimens Sphenopteris stems surface Tertiary theologians thousand tion trees true truth Turrettine upper vegetable vision writer Zamia
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Página 138 - Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death: The spirit does but mean the breath: I know no more.
Página 37 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Página 268 - Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Página 233 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens...
Página 262 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy?
Página 261 - The decrees of God are, his eternal purpose according to the counsel of his will, whereby, for his own glory, he hath fore-ordained whatsoever comes to pass.
Página 229 - Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written; Which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Página 138 - Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Tho...
Página 263 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Página 139 - No more? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime. Were mellow music match'd with him. O life as futile, then, as frail! O for thy voice to soothe and bless ! What hope of answer, or redress ? Behind the veil, behind the veil.