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Pagina 10
... original , and curious , and plausible . Some rea ers may doubt their accuracy , but none will question the eminer ability with which they are developed . The volume will add to th reputation of the author , and the popularity of his ...
... original , and curious , and plausible . Some rea ers may doubt their accuracy , but none will question the eminer ability with which they are developed . The volume will add to th reputation of the author , and the popularity of his ...
Pagina 13
... 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 ...
Pagina 15
... 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 ...
Pagina 35
... 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 ...
Pagina 97
... 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 ...
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
amid Ammonites ancient animal Arthur Seat beds Belemnite beneath boulder-clay boulders Brora Caithness Carboniferous Chalk character clay Coal Measures Coccosteus cones contains creature Cromarty curious cuttle-fish deposits depth district earth Eathie elevation existing extinct feet fish flora forests formation fossils fragments Frith furnished ganoid geological geologist glacier gneiss granite gravel grooved Gulf Stream Highlands hills hollow Hugh Miller hundred island lake land least LECTURES ON GEOLOGY Lias Loch lower mark masses miles molluscs Moray Morayshire mosses neighborhood northern occur ocean old coast line Old Red Sandstone Oolite organisms peculiar period plants Pleistocene portion precipices present remains reptiles resemble rising river rocks 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 Triassic upper valley vast vegetable waves
Populaire passages
Pagina 211 - The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: neither can they die any more : for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Pagina 349 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Pagina 195 - 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.
Pagina 222 - Traced like a map, the landscape lies In cultured beauty stretching wide ; There, Pentland's green acclivities ; There, Ocean, with its azure tide ; There, Arthur's seat ; and gleaming through Thy southern wing, Dunedin blue ! While, in the orient, Lammer's daughters, A distant giant range are seen, — North Berwick Law, with cone of green, And Bass amid the waters.
Pagina 137 - Shakespeare's name. Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms; 170 The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Pagina 282 - With boughs that quaked at every breath, Gray 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 shattered trunk, and frequent flung, Where seemed the cliffs to meet on high, His boughs athwart the narrowed sky.