 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1832 - 634 Seiten
...periods, we acquire a more perfect knowledge of its present condition, and more comprehensive views concerning the laws now governing its animate and...and retain in the memory a multitude of complicated relations—the various peculiarities of national character—the different degrees of moral and intellectual... | |
 | 1833 - 742 Seiten
...knowledge of its pretent conditions, and more comprehensive views concerning the laws now governing iu animate and inanimate productions. When we study history,...present and former states of society. We trace the long scries of events which have gradually led to the actual posture of affairs, and by connecting effects... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1840 - 506 Seiten
...periods, we acquire a more perfect knowledge of its present condition, and more comprehensive views concerning the laws now governing its animate and...human nature, by instituting a comparison between the preseni and former states of society. We trace the long series of events which have gradually led to... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1854 - 870 Seiten
...periods, we acquire a more perfect knowledge of its present condition, and more comprehensive views concerning the laws now governing its animate and...long series of events which have gradually led to the actujl posture of affairs ; and by connecting effects with their causes, we an, enabled to classify... | |
 | John C. Harris, W. D. Short, E. A. Samuells - 1857 - 84 Seiten
...form a comprehensive view of laws governing it, we must search into its state, at former periods, and trace the long series of events which have gradually led to the actual posture of affairs. The Historian and Geologist, (he says), will rarely fail to draw correct and philosophical conclusions... | |
 | 1833 - 738 Seiten
...we study history, we 'ibtain a more profound insight into tmman nature, by instituting a companion between the present and former states of society. We trace the long fcrie* of events which have gradually W to the actual posture of affairs, and by connecting- effects... | |
 | Mary C. Rabbitt - 1979 - 786 Seiten
...now governing its animate and inanimate ptoductions. When we study history, we obtain a more ptofound insight into human nature, by instituting a comparison...between the present and former states of society." SF Emmons, one of the great economic geologists during the early years of the Survey, whose contribution... | |
 | Jonathan Smith - 1994 - 294 Seiten
...and more comprehensive views concerning the laws now governing its animate and inanimate products. When we study history, we obtain a more profound insight...in the memory a multitude of complicated relations. ... As the present condition of nations is the result of many antecedent changes, some extremely remote... | |
 | Stefan Collini, Richard Whatmore, B. W. Young, Brian Young - 2000 - 306 Seiten
...former changes of the Earth's surface by reference to causes now in operation, 2 vols. (1830), I, p. 1: 'When we study history we obtain a more profound insight...between the present and former states of society.' fostered by the revolutionary era and industrialism, was the unprecedented character of the modern... | |
 | Thomas Glade, Paola Albini, Félix Francés - 2001 - 242 Seiten
...and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner Printed in the Netherlands. "When we study history, we obtain a more profound...by instituting a comparison between the present and the former states of society. We trace the long series of events which have gradually led to the actual... | |
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... concerning the laws now governing its animate and inanimate productions. When we study history, we obtain a more profound insight into human nature, by instituting a comparison between the present and former states of society. 