Principles of Geology: Or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and Its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology, Band 1J. Murray, 1867 - 834 Seiten |
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... less desirable that a geolo- gist should be well versed in chemistry , natural philosophy , mineralogy , zoology , comparative anatomy , botany ; in short , in every science relating to organic or inorganic nature . With these ...
... less desirable that a geolo- gist should be well versed in chemistry , natural philosophy , mineralogy , zoology , comparative anatomy , botany ; in short , in every science relating to organic or inorganic nature . With these ...
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... less capable than the Greek historian of reasoning philosophically on natural phenomena . We also know that the rulers of Asia were engaged in very remote eras in executing great national works , such as tanks and canals requiring ...
... less capable than the Greek historian of reasoning philosophically on natural phenomena . We also know that the rulers of Asia were engaged in very remote eras in executing great national works , such as tanks and canals requiring ...
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... less the exuberant imagination of Eastern writers , to augment them into general cataclysms and conflagrations . The great flood of the Chinese , which their traditions carry back to the period of Yaou , something more than 2,000 years ...
... less the exuberant imagination of Eastern writers , to augment them into general cataclysms and conflagrations . The great flood of the Chinese , which their traditions carry back to the period of Yaou , something more than 2,000 years ...
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... less that there had been a progressive development of life from the lowest to the highest grades of organisation . Xenophanes , a Colophonian who lived B.C. 535 , spoke of shells , fishes , and seals which had become dried in mud , and ...
... less that there had been a progressive development of life from the lowest to the highest grades of organisation . Xenophanes , a Colophonian who lived B.C. 535 , spoke of shells , fishes , and seals which had become dried in mud , and ...
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... less cogent arguments , demonstrated the futility of attributing the situation of the shells in question to the Mosaic deluge , a theory obstinately defended by some . That inundation , he observed , was too transient ; it consisted ...
... less cogent arguments , demonstrated the futility of attributing the situation of the shells in question to the Mosaic deluge , a theory obstinately defended by some . That inundation , he observed , was too transient ; it consisted ...
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Seite 98 - This easy and universal belief, so expressive of the sense of mankind, may be ascribed to the genuine merit of the fable itself. We imperceptibly advance from youth to age without observing the gradual, but incessant, change of human affairs ; and even in our larger experience of history, the imagination is accustomed, by a perpetual series of causes and effects, to unite the most distant revolutions.
Seite 503 - But the most sublime scene is where a mural pile of porphyry, escaping the process of disintegration that is devastating the coast, appears to have been left as a sort of rampart against the inroads of the ocean ; the Atlantic, when provoked by wintry gales, batters against it with all the force of real artillery, the waves having, in their repeated assaults, forced themselves an entrance.
Seite 78 - ... in the planetary motions, where geometry has carried the eye so far both into the future and the past, we discover no mark, either of the commencement or the termination of the present order.
Seite 30 - I found the sea in the same place, and on its shores were a party of fishermen, of whom I inquired how long the land had been covered by the waters. ' Is this a question,' said they, ' for a man like you ? This spot has always been what it is now.
Seite 607 - ... the sea having left them dry for a considerable time. I accompanied Signor Moramaldo to behold the wonderful effects of the eruption. The sea had retired on the side of Baite, abandoning a considerable tract, and the shore appeared almost entirely dry, from the quantity of ashes and broken pumice-stones .thrown up by the eruption.
Seite 2 - We often discover with surprise, on looking back into the chronicles of nations, how the fortune of some battle has influenced the fate of millions of our contemporaries, when it has long been forgotten by the mass of the population. With this remote event we may find inseparably connected the geographical boundaries of a great state, the language now spoken by the inhabitants, their peculiar manners, laws, and religious opinions. But far more astonishing and unexpected are the connexions brought...
Seite 326 - ... well as of- reproduction ; but they may also be regarded as antagonist forces. For the aqueous agents are incessantly labouring to reduce the inequalities of the earth's surface to a level ; while the igneous are equally active in restoring the unevenness of the external crust, partly by heaping up new matter in certain localities, and partly by depressing one portion, and forcing out another, of the earth's envelope.
Seite 98 - ... erected over the principal gate of Ephesus. His singular dress, and obsolete language, confounded the baker, to whom he offered an ancient medal of Decius as the current coin of the empire ; and Jamblichus, on the suspicion of a secret treasure, was dragged before the judge. Their mutual enquiries produced the amazing discovery, that two centuries were almost elapsed since Jamblichus and his friends had escaped from the rage of a pagan tyrant.
Seite 18 - The illustrations are thus consecutively adduced. 1. Solid land has been converted into sea. 2. Sea has been changed into land. Marine shells lie far distant from the deep, and the anchor has been found on the summit of hills.