Sketch Book of Popular Geology: Popular Geology: A Series of Lectures Read Before the Philosophical Institution of EdinburghGould and Lincoln, 1859 - 423 páginas |
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... original , and curious , and plausible . Some read- ers may doubt their accuracy , but none will question the eminent ability with which they are developed . The volume will add to the reputation of the author , and the popularity of ...
... original , and curious , and plausible . Some read- ers may doubt their accuracy , but none will question the eminent ability with which they are developed . The volume will add to the reputation of the author , and the popularity of ...
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... original in conception , — of that which has now , alas ! glided , with himself , into those silent shades where dwell the souls of the departed , with the halo of past thought hovering dimly round them , waiting for that new impulse ...
... original in conception , — of that which has now , alas ! glided , with himself , into those silent shades where dwell the souls of the departed , with the halo of past thought hovering dimly round them , waiting for that new impulse ...
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... original in the Divine Mind , which has gradually fitted the earth to be the habitation of intelligent beings , and has introduced upon the stage of time organism after organism , rising in dignity , until all have found their ...
... original in the Divine Mind , which has gradually fitted the earth to be the habitation of intelligent beings , and has introduced upon the stage of time organism after organism , rising in dignity , until all have found their ...
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... original connection , to " The Testimony of the Rocks . " I have , instead , added an Appendix of rather a novel char- acter . In addition to the " Cruise of the Betsey , " and " Ten Thousand Miles over the Fossiliferous Deposits of ...
... original connection , to " The Testimony of the Rocks . " I have , instead , added an Appendix of rather a novel char- acter . In addition to the " Cruise of the Betsey , " and " Ten Thousand Miles over the Fossiliferous Deposits of ...
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... original centre of the race in Western Asia ; nor do we find any trace of a great city older than Nine- veh , or of a great kingdom that preceded in its rise that of Egypt . The average life of great nations does not exceed twelve , or ...
... original centre of the race in Western Asia ; nor do we find any trace of a great city older than Nine- veh , or of a great kingdom that preceded in its rise that of Egypt . The average life of great nations does not exceed twelve , or ...
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Términos y frases comunes
amid Ammonites ancient animal Arthur Seat beds Belemnite beneath boulder-clay boulders Brora Caithness Carboniferous caves Chalk character clay Coal Measures Coccosteus color cone contains creature Cromarty curious cuttle-fish deposits depth diameters earth Eathie elevation existing extinct feet fish flora forests formation fossils fragments Frith furnished geological geologist glacier gneiss granitic gravel grooved Highlands hills hollow Hugh Miller hundred inches island lake land least Lias Loch lower mark mass miles molluscs moraine Morayshire mosses neighborhood northern occupied occur ocean old coast line Old Red Sandstone Oolite organisms peculiar period plants Pleistocene portion precipices present remains reptiles resemble ridge rising river rocks Roderick Murchison sand scarce scenery Scotch Scotland Scottish seems seen shells shores side Silurian Sir Roderick species specimens stone strata stratum stream surface Tertiary thick thousand tide tion tract trap trees upper valley vast vegetable waves
Pasajes populares
Página 270 - Yarrow but a river bare, That glides the dark hills under ? There are a thousand such elsewhere As worthy of your wonder.
Página 197 - Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON ; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet.
Página 139 - Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Página 287 - Arcadian plain. Pure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white round polished pebbles spread...
Página 238 - The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold ; the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon. He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood. The arrow cannot make him flee ; sling-stones are turned with him into stubble. Darts are counted as stubble ; he laugheth at the shaking of a spear
Página 194 - Themselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. They told, how sea-fowls...
Página 284 - With boughs that quaked at every breath, Grey birch and aspen wept beneath; Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the rifted rock; And, higher yet, the pine-tree hung His shatter'd trunk, and frequent flung, Where seem'd the cliffs to meet on high, His boughs athwart the narrow'd sky.
Página 241 - Saint Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name : Such tales had Whitby's fishers told, And said they might his shape behold, And hear his anvil sound ; A deaden'd clang, — a huge dim form, Seen but, and heard, when gathering storm And night were closing round.