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Pagina 2
... sufficient common sense to enable us to reason upon what we see . For the rest we may trust to the assistance of our fellow- labourers , and to that community of feeling by which they are ever ani- mated ; for geology is eminently a ...
... sufficient common sense to enable us to reason upon what we see . For the rest we may trust to the assistance of our fellow- labourers , and to that community of feeling by which they are ever ani- mated ; for geology is eminently a ...
Pagina 6
... sufficient data for determining what were the animals inhabiting the land while the earlier strata was being deposited at the bottom of the sea . It was at one time supposed that a gradual developement of organic life might be traced ...
... sufficient data for determining what were the animals inhabiting the land while the earlier strata was being deposited at the bottom of the sea . It was at one time supposed that a gradual developement of organic life might be traced ...
Pagina 15
... sufficiently economical . In the first place , a small chamber is formed by the pick - axe and shovel , and arrangements having been made by means of pipes for conducting water to and from it , the outlet is stopped up , and the chamber ...
... sufficiently economical . In the first place , a small chamber is formed by the pick - axe and shovel , and arrangements having been made by means of pipes for conducting water to and from it , the outlet is stopped up , and the chamber ...
Pagina 17
... sufficiently established its claim to truth and authenticity , and was still treated as being almost wholly speculative and conjectural . Mr. P. , therefore , felt peculiarly happy in the present opportunity of putting this subject to ...
... sufficiently established its claim to truth and authenticity , and was still treated as being almost wholly speculative and conjectural . Mr. P. , therefore , felt peculiarly happy in the present opportunity of putting this subject to ...
Pagina 23
... sufficiently perfect to admit of an accurate description and delineation of their several organs . These Mr. P. has figured in his History of Egyptian Mummies , and has named them Necrobia mumiarum and Dermestes pollinctus . They are ...
... sufficiently perfect to admit of an accurate description and delineation of their several organs . These Mr. P. has figured in his History of Egyptian Mummies , and has named them Necrobia mumiarum and Dermestes pollinctus . They are ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 82 - The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Pagina 484 - And, lastly, We do hereby, for Us, our heirs and successors, grant and declare that these our Letters Patent, or the enrolment or exemplification thereof, shall be in and by all things valid and effectual in the law, according to the true intent and meaning of the same, and shall be...
Pagina 13 - Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end
Pagina 275 - I do not now maintain, I think it right, as one of my last acts before I quit this Chair, thus publicly to read my recantation. We ought, indeed, to have paused before we first adopted the diluvian theory, and referred all our old superficial gravel to the action of the Mosaic flood.
Pagina 275 - Our errors were, however, natural, and of the same kind which led many excellent observers of a former century to refer all the secondary formations of geology to the Noachian deluge.
Pagina 484 - AND LASTLY, WE do hereby, for Us, our Heirs, and Successors, grant and declare, That these our Letters Patent, or the enrolment or exemplification thereof, shall be in and...
Pagina 328 - ... have so far affected the rays of Light, that a corresponding difference from the eyes of existing Crustaceans would have been found in the organs on which the impressions of such rays were then received. Regarding Light itself also, we learn from the resemblance of these most ancient...
Pagina 484 - ... proficiency in that department of knowledge in which he is about to graduate ; and he shall receive from the said Chancellor a certificate, under the seal of the said University of Bombay, and signed by the said Chancellor or ViceChancellor, in which the particulars so stated shall be declared.
Pagina 275 - We ought, indeed, to have paused, before we first adopted the diluvial theory, and referred all our old superficial gravel to the action of the Mosaic Flood. For of man, and the works of his hands, we have not yet found a single trace among the remnants of a former world entombed in these ancient deposits.
Pagina 81 - ... an education in which the individual is cultivated, not as an instrument towards some ulterior end, but as an end unto himself alone ; in other words, an education, in which his absolute perfection as a man, and not merely his relative dexterity as a professional man, is the scope immediately in view.