 | 1839 - 658 pagina’s
...what will this tell against the accumulated labours of myriads of architects at work night and day, month after month ? Thus do we see the soft and gelatinous...inanimate works of nature, could successfully resist." There is splendour in such speculations as these, provided experiment and observation warrant the conclusion.... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1840 - 504 pagina’s
...architects are at work night and day, month after month, and we see their soft and gelatinous bodies through the agency of the vital laws conquering the...inanimate works of nature could successfully resist." * As the coral animals require to be continually immersed in salt water, they cannot raise themselves... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1845 - 612 pagina’s
...another power, as antagonist to the former, takes part in the contest. The organic forces separate tho atoms of carbonate of lime one by one from the foaming...which the Coral-polypes obtain the enormous quan* Pwwin;s Journal, p. 548. SOURCES OF LIME IN CORAL. 515 tity of lime deposited by them ; and this question... | |
 | 1845 - 558 pagina’s
...month after month? Thus do we see the soft and gelatinous body of a polypus, through the agency of vital laws, conquering the great mechanical power...inanimate works of nature could successfully resist." We may here remark, that while the delicate and branching corals flourish in the tranquil lagoon, it... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1846 - 716 pagina’s
...against the accumulated labour of myriads of architects at work night and day, month after month 1 Thus do we see the soft and gelatinous body of a polypus,...inanimate works of nature could successfully resist. We did not return on board till late in the evening, for we stayed a long time in the lagoon, examining... | |
 | Robert Patterson - 1849 - 282 pagina’s
...architects are at work day and night, month after month, and we see their soft and gelatinous bodies, through the agency of the vital laws, conquering the...inanimate works of Nature could successfully resist." When we consider that these busy millions are silently laying the foundations of islands and of continents,... | |
 | Robert Ellis (F.L.S.) - 1850 - 548 pagina’s
...at work night and day, month after month ? Thus do we see the soft and gelatinous body of a polyp, through the agency of the vital laws, conquering the...neither the art of man nor the inanimate works of nature can long resist." On the east coast of New Holland a reef has been described as being one thousand... | |
 | Walter Lawry - 1851 - 236 pagina’s
...polypus, through the agency of the vital laws, conquering the great mechanical power of the waves of the ocean, which neither the art of man, nor the inanimate works of nature, could successfully resist. 28th. Sunday. — The early service commenced with the rising sun, and the public preaching at nine... | |
 | 1851 - 282 pagina’s
...polypus, through the agency of the vital laws, conquering the great mechanical power of the waves of the ocean, which neither the art of man, nor the inanimate works of nature, could successfully resist. 28th. Sunday The early service commenced with the rising sun, and the public preaching at nine o'clock.... | |
 | Walter Lawry - 1851 - 246 pagina’s
...polypus, through the agency of the vital laws, conquering the great mechanical power of the waves of the ocean, which neither the art of man, nor the inanimate works of nature, could successfuEy resist. 28th. Sunday. — The early service commenced with the rising sun, and the public... | |
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Thus do we see the soft and gelatinous body of a polypus, through the agency of the vital laws, conquering the great mechanical power of the waves of an ocean which neither the art of man nor the inanimate works of nature could successfully resist. 
