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Pagina iii
... seen the light . When my own over- laden brain refused to do its duty , you gave me to hope , by offers of well- timed assistance , that the task before me might still be accomplished . Your friendly voice , often heard in tones of ...
... seen the light . When my own over- laden brain refused to do its duty , you gave me to hope , by offers of well- timed assistance , that the task before me might still be accomplished . Your friendly voice , often heard in tones of ...
Pagina 12
... city where interest in scientific matters , and attend- ance upon lectures of a very superior order , are affairs of every - day occurrence . Rarely have I seen an audience so - profoundly absorbed . And at the conclusion of the.
... city where interest in scientific matters , and attend- ance upon lectures of a very superior order , are affairs of every - day occurrence . Rarely have I seen an audience so - profoundly absorbed . And at the conclusion of the.
Pagina 13
... seen that they veritably gather into one luminous centre the best por- tions of his contemplated work , garnering very much of what was most vivid in painting and original in conception , — of that which has now , alas ! glided , with ...
... seen that they veritably gather into one luminous centre the best por- tions of his contemplated work , garnering very much of what was most vivid in painting and original in conception , — of that which has now , alas ! glided , with ...
Pagina 14
... seen but the cold , hard profile of the man , instead of the broad , beaming , full - orbed glance which he may have cast over the wondrous æons of the past eternity . To meet any difficulties arising from misconception , it may be ...
... seen but the cold , hard profile of the man , instead of the broad , beaming , full - orbed glance which he may have cast over the wondrous æons of the past eternity . To meet any difficulties arising from misconception , it may be ...
Pagina 19
... argument disturbs the order of succession of classes , as seen in the crust of the earth . " So far from disturbing the order of succession , 20 INTRODUCTORY RÉSUMÉ : it is , we conceive , PROGRESS OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCE . 19.
... argument disturbs the order of succession of classes , as seen in the crust of the earth . " So far from disturbing the order of succession , 20 INTRODUCTORY RÉSUMÉ : it is , we conceive , PROGRESS OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCE . 19.
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.