Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, المجلد 1Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1837 |
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... Geology 13 II . Consistency of Geological Discoveries with Sacred History 18 III . Proper subjects of Geological Inquiry 37 IV . Relation of Unstratified to Stratified Rocks 39 V. Volcanic Rocks , Basalt , and Trap 45 . VI . Primary ...
... Geology 13 II . Consistency of Geological Discoveries with Sacred History 18 III . Proper subjects of Geological Inquiry 37 IV . Relation of Unstratified to Stratified Rocks 39 V. Volcanic Rocks , Basalt , and Trap 45 . VI . Primary ...
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... to which I can refer my readers , in illustration of this and other parts of the present essay , is the single sheet , VOL . 1 . 2 A third foreigner might travel from the coast of Dorset Extent of the Province of Geology.
... to which I can refer my readers , in illustration of this and other parts of the present essay , is the single sheet , VOL . 1 . 2 A third foreigner might travel from the coast of Dorset Extent of the Province of Geology.
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... geological structure of the districts through which our three travellers have been conducted . The first will have seen only those north- western portions of Britain , that are composed of rocks be- longing to the primary and transition ...
... geological structure of the districts through which our three travellers have been conducted . The first will have seen only those north- western portions of Britain , that are composed of rocks be- longing to the primary and transition ...
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... geological character of the strata on which they live . Their physical condition also , as indicated by the duration of ... Geology of England and Wales ; along which nearly seventy changes in the character of the strata take place . and ...
... geological character of the strata on which they live . Their physical condition also , as indicated by the duration of ... Geology of England and Wales ; along which nearly seventy changes in the character of the strata take place . and ...
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... geologist to return from the region of fancy to that of facts , and to establish his conclusions on the firm basis of ... Geology extends its researches into regions more vast and remote , than come within the scope of any other physical ...
... geologist to return from the region of fancy to that of facts , and to establish his conclusions on the firm basis of ... Geology extends its researches into regions more vast and remote , than come within the scope of any other physical ...
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abundant adapted afford Agassiz Ammonites ancient animal and vegetable appear Articulated beds Belemnite body bones bony bottom calcareous Carboniferous cavity Chalk chambered shells character clay Coal formation composed condition Coniferæ contrivances Coprolites creation creatures Crocodiles Crustaceans Cuvier Cycadeæ deposites derived Dicotyledonous discovery earth Eningen entire evidence existing external shell extinct species feet Ferns fluid fossil fossil Fishes fossil species genus Geology globe horny Ichthyosaurus Iguanodon important inhabitants ink-bag land Lias limestone living Lizards lobes Lyme Regis Mammalia marine mechanical Megalosaurus Megatherium mineral nature Nautilus Nautilus Pompilius nearly occur Oolite organic remains peculiar Pentacrinite perfect period plants Plesiosaurus portion present probably proportion Pterodactyle quadrupeds recent represents reptiles resembling ribs sand sandstone Secondary similar siphuncle skeleton specimens stems strata stratum structure surface teeth tion tooth Trans Transition series transverse plates Trilobites trunk vertebræ vertebral column whilst
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الصفحة 431 - Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made, thou art God from everlasting, and world without end.
الصفحة 28 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away- their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created : and thou renewest the face of the earth.
الصفحة 413 - In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there. I might possibly answer, that for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever: nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer.
الصفحة 5 - On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation ; illustrating such work by all reasonable arguments, as for instance the variety and formation of God's creatures in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms ; the effect of digestion, and thereby of conversion ; the construction of. the hand of man, and an infinite variety of other arguments ; as also by discoveries...
الصفحة 155 - ... swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its reach...
الصفحة 162 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
الصفحة 26 - Moses; but does Moses ever say, that when God created the heavens and the earth, he did more at the time alluded to than transform, them out of previously existing materials? Or does he ever say, that there was not an interval of many ages betwixt the first act of creation, described in the first verse of the book of Genesis, and said to have been performed at the beginning; and those more detailed operations, the account of which commences at the second verse, and which are described to us as having...
الصفحة 332 - Coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild irregular profusion over every portion of its surface.
الصفحة 20 - geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy...
الصفحة 427 - Thy creatures have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens ; but I have found thee in thy temples.