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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... marked by certain peculiarities of structure , they bore , as is shown by the fossil trunks of Granton and Craigleith , the familiar outlines of true coniferous trees ; and would mayhap have differed no more in appearance from their ...
... marked by certain peculiarities of structure , they bore , as is shown by the fossil trunks of Granton and Craigleith , the familiar outlines of true coniferous trees ; and would mayhap have differed no more in appearance from their ...
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... marked stig- mata , quincuncially arranged , with each a little ring at its bottom , and , in at least one rare species , surrounded by a sculptured star . Unlike true roots , they terminate abruptly each rootlet which they sent forth ...
... marked stig- mata , quincuncially arranged , with each a little ring at its bottom , and , in at least one rare species , surrounded by a sculptured star . Unlike true roots , they terminate abruptly each rootlet which they sent forth ...
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... marked order , -that pla- coidal order of Agassiz that to an internal framework of cartilage adds an external armature , consisting of plates , spines , and shagreen points of solid bone . Either of the two kinds of dog - fishes on our ...
... marked order , -that pla- coidal order of Agassiz that to an internal framework of cartilage adds an external armature , consisting of plates , spines , and shagreen points of solid bone . Either of the two kinds of dog - fishes on our ...
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... marked peculiarities attach to these Oolitic ones , it may be well to inquire whether their place , so far in advance of their fellows , may not be indicative of a radical difference of character , a difference consi- derable enough to ...
... marked peculiarities attach to these Oolitic ones , it may be well to inquire whether their place , so far in advance of their fellows , may not be indicative of a radical difference of character , a difference consi- derable enough to ...
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... marked by cer- tain peculiarities which constitute it a different genus , seems in Europe to have been contemporary with the Dinotherium ; but in North America ( the scene of its greatest numerical development ) it appears to be- long ...
... marked by cer- tain peculiarities which constitute it a different genus , seems in Europe to have been contemporary with the Dinotherium ; but in North America ( the scene of its greatest numerical development ) it appears to be- long ...
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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...