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Pagina 15
... rising in dignity , until all have found their completion in the human nature , which , in its turn , is a prophecy of the spiritual and Divine . This may be said to be the true development hypothesis , in opposition to the false and ...
... rising in dignity , until all have found their completion in the human nature , which , in its turn , is a prophecy of the spiritual and Divine . This may be said to be the true development hypothesis , in opposition to the false and ...
Pagina 53
... rising over the lower , as over the upper flat , we see a continuous escarpment , which marks where , in the present age , during the height of stream tides , the sea and the land meet ; just as the up- per willow - crested escarpment ...
... rising over the lower , as over the upper flat , we see a continuous escarpment , which marks where , in the present age , during the height of stream tides , the sea and the land meet ; just as the up- per willow - crested escarpment ...
Pagina 56
... rising to its lower battlements , like some wrecked vessel on a wild lee - shore , with the angry surf raging high over her deck , and kissing with its flame - like tips the distant yards . The scenery of the old coast line possesses ...
... rising to its lower battlements , like some wrecked vessel on a wild lee - shore , with the angry surf raging high over her deck , and kissing with its flame - like tips the distant yards . The scenery of the old coast line possesses ...
Pagina 58
... evening , or by the rising moon , they seem the sheeted spectres of some extinct tribe of giants . - - - The date of that change of level which gave to Scot- land this flat fringe of margin - land , with 58 LECTURES ON GEOLOGY .
... evening , or by the rising moon , they seem the sheeted spectres of some extinct tribe of giants . - - - The date of that change of level which gave to Scot- land this flat fringe of margin - land , with 58 LECTURES ON GEOLOGY .
Pagina 65
... rising , there are islands which present on their shores exactly such an appearance as our own country would have presented some sixty or a hun- dred years after the elevation of the old coast line . The island of Reguain , one of these ...
... rising , there are islands which present on their shores exactly such an appearance as our own country would have presented some sixty or a hun- dred years after the elevation of the old coast line . The island of Reguain , one of these ...
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.