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... period , to the brick clays , Clyde beds , and drift and boulder deposits of the Pleistocene era , and again from these , with the help of museums and collections , up through the mammaliferous crag of England , to its Red and its Coral ...
... period , to the brick clays , Clyde beds , and drift and boulder deposits of the Pleistocene era , and again from these , with the help of museums and collections , up through the mammaliferous crag of England , to its Red and its Coral ...
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... period of unconsciousness must have fol- lowed this , a kind of swoon , —but he had never fallen . Second , what annoyed him most , however , was a kind of nightmare , which for some nights past had rendered sleep most miserable . It ...
... period of unconsciousness must have fol- lowed this , a kind of swoon , —but he had never fallen . Second , what annoyed him most , however , was a kind of nightmare , which for some nights past had rendered sleep most miserable . It ...
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... period of life , the legendary histories of Wallace and Bruce ; and the occupation had its use . It gave him a capacity for admiring what was great though perilous in exploit , and for truly and largely sympathizing with what was ...
... period of life , the legendary histories of Wallace and Bruce ; and the occupation had its use . It gave him a capacity for admiring what was great though perilous in exploit , and for truly and largely sympathizing with what was ...
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... period that ushered in the existing creation . He studied it minutely along the shores of the Moray Frith , on the east coast of Scotland , along the shores of Fife and the Lothians , and on the coast of Ayr- shire and the Frith of ...
... period that ushered in the existing creation . He studied it minutely along the shores of the Moray Frith , on the east coast of Scotland , along the shores of Fife and the Lothians , and on the coast of Ayr- shire and the Frith of ...
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... periods . It bears nearly the same sort of relation to the physical history of the past , that biography does to the ... period in the terrestrial history since being first began upon our planet , -it presents to the student a theme so ...
... periods . It bears nearly the same sort of relation to the physical history of the past , that biography does to the ... period in the terrestrial history since being first began upon our planet , -it presents to the student a theme so ...
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Page 229 - Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written; Which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Page 37 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 138 - So careful of the type?' but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go. Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death: The spirit does but mean the breath: I know no more.
Page 233 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens...
Page 262 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 225 - Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing ? And one of them shall not fall to the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore ; ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Page 138 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 198 - said God ; and forthwith Light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the Deep, and from her native East To journey through the aery gloom began, Sphered in a radiant cloud — for yet the Sun Was not; she in a cloudy tabernacle Sojourned the while.
Page 210 - Sing heavenly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...