The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and RevealedT. Constable & Company, 1857 - 500 pages |
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... flora , both the Gymnogens and Acrogens are largely developed , with a very puzzling intermediate class , that , while they attained to the size of trees , like the former , retained in a remarkable degree , as in the Lepidodendra and ...
... flora , both the Gymnogens and Acrogens are largely developed , with a very puzzling intermediate class , that , while they attained to the size of trees , like the former , retained in a remarkable degree , as in the Lepidodendra and ...
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... flora of even the Old Red is but meagre and poor ; and you will perhaps per- mit me to lighten this part of my subject , which threat- ens too palpably to partake of the poverty of that with which it deals , by a simple illustration ...
... flora of even the Old Red is but meagre and poor ; and you will perhaps per- mit me to lighten this part of my subject , which threat- ens too palpably to partake of the poverty of that with which it deals , by a simple illustration ...
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... flora of the Silurian System , from the first ap- pearance of organisms in its nether beds , to its bone- bed of the Upper Ludlow rocks , in which the Lycopo- dites first appear , so in the Acrogens of that moor , with its solitary ...
... flora of the Silurian System , from the first ap- pearance of organisms in its nether beds , to its bone- bed of the Upper Ludlow rocks , in which the Lycopo- dites first appear , so in the Acrogens of that moor , with its solitary ...
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... flora , I shall make but one other remark . The existing plants whence we derive our analogies in dealing with the vegetation of this early period contribute but little , if at all , to Fig . 13 . Orkney . ( Nat . size. Of the Lower Old ...
... flora , I shall make but one other remark . The existing plants whence we derive our analogies in dealing with the vegetation of this early period contribute but little , if at all , to Fig . 13 . Orkney . ( Nat . size. Of the Lower Old ...
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... flora may have covered the dry land with its mantle of cheerful green , and served its general purposes , chemical and others , in the well - balanced economy of nature ; but the herb- eating animals would have fared but ill even where ...
... flora may have covered the dry land with its mantle of cheerful green , and served its general purposes , chemical and others , in the well - balanced economy of nature ; but the herb- eating animals would have fared but ill even where ...
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The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two ... Hugh Miller No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 5 - 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 211 - 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 252 - Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Page 215 - 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 206 - Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
Page 112 - 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 113 - No more? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime, Were mellow music match'd with him. O life as futile, then, as frail! O for thy voice to soothe and bless! What hope of answer, or redress? Behind the veil, behind the veil.
Page 247 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Page 211 - The link by which they are connected is of a higher and immaterial nature ; and their connection is to be sought in the view of the Creator himself, whose aim in forming the earth, in allowing it to undergo the successive changes which geology has pointed out, and in creating successively all the different types of animals which have passed away, was to introduce man upon the surface of our globe. MAN is THE END TOWARDS WHICH ALL THE ANIMAL CREATION HAS TENDED FROM THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE FIRST...
Page 178 - Let there be light, said God ; And forthwith light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the deep...