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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... . " The plants we find arranged by the poet on the simple but very inadequate principle of size and show . Herbs are placed first , as lowest and least conspicuous in the scale ; then flowers ; and finally OF PLANTS . &
... . " The plants we find arranged by the poet on the simple but very inadequate principle of size and show . Herbs are placed first , as lowest and least conspicuous in the scale ; then flowers ; and finally OF PLANTS . &
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... scale ; then flowers ; and finally trees . Among the herbs , at least two of the ferns- the true maidenhair and the spleenwort - are assigned places among plants of such high standing as sage , mint , and rosemary ; among the flowers ...
... scale ; then flowers ; and finally trees . Among the herbs , at least two of the ferns- the true maidenhair and the spleenwort - are assigned places among plants of such high standing as sage , mint , and rosemary ; among the flowers ...
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... scale , we find the Thallogens , or flowerless plants which lack proper stems and leaves , a class which includes all the algæ . Next succeed the Acrogens , or flowerless plants that possess both stems and leaves , such as the ferns and ...
... scale , we find the Thallogens , or flowerless plants which lack proper stems and leaves , a class which includes all the algæ . Next succeed the Acrogens , or flowerless plants that possess both stems and leaves , such as the ferns and ...
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... scale , with , so far as has yet been ascertained , the place of their first appearance in creation ; while the double line of type below shows in what degree the order of their occurrence agrees with the arrangement of the botanist ...
... scale , with , so far as has yet been ascertained , the place of their first appearance in creation ; while the double line of type below shows in what degree the order of their occurrence agrees with the arrangement of the botanist ...
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... with the further fact , that we cannot in the present creation range serially , as either higher or lower in the scale , at least two of these divisions , -the mollusca and articulata . In one of the higher OF PLANTS . 13.
... with the further fact , that we cannot in the present creation range serially , as either higher or lower in the scale , at least two of these divisions , -the mollusca and articulata . In one of the higher OF PLANTS . 13.
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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...