Scientific Lectures and EssaysMacmillan, 1893 - 336 sivua |
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Sivu 37
... shells and corals , dead , but many of them quite perfect , some of the corals plainly in the very place in which they grew , would you not say - These creatures must have lived down here before the coal was laid on top of them ? And if ...
... shells and corals , dead , but many of them quite perfect , some of the corals plainly in the very place in which they grew , would you not say - These creatures must have lived down here before the coal was laid on top of them ? And if ...
Sivu 40
... shells and bones ; under that a bed of peat ; under that one of blue silt ; under that a buried forest , with the trees upright and rooted ; under that another layer of blue silt full of roots and vegetable fibre ; perhaps under that ...
... shells and bones ; under that a bed of peat ; under that one of blue silt ; under that a buried forest , with the trees upright and rooted ; under that another layer of blue silt full of roots and vegetable fibre ; perhaps under that ...
Sivu 56
... shells , of an Arctic or northern type , would be found in it here and there . Some would have lived near those later beaches , some in deeper water in the ancient ooze , wherever the ice- berg had left it in peace long enough for sea ...
... shells , of an Arctic or northern type , would be found in it here and there . Some would have lived near those later beaches , some in deeper water in the ancient ooze , wherever the ice- berg had left it in peace long enough for sea ...
Sivu 60
... shells , if not in the clay itself , yet in sand - beds mixed with them , and probably underlying them . And this is a notable fact , that the more species of shells they find , the more they will find - if they work out their names ...
... shells , if not in the clay itself , yet in sand - beds mixed with them , and probably underlying them . And this is a notable fact , that the more species of shells they find , the more they will find - if they work out their names ...
Sivu 61
... shells have been taken ; eleven of them are now exclusively Arctic , and not found in our seas ; four of them are still common to the Arctic seas and to our own ; and almost all the rest are northern shells . Fourteen hundred feet above ...
... shells have been taken ; eleven of them are now exclusively Arctic , and not found in our seas ; four of them are still common to the Arctic seas and to our own ; and almost all the rest are northern shells . Fourteen hundred feet above ...
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Sivu 278 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Sivu 312 - While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
Sivu 3 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Sivu 11 - Iron sharpeneth iron ; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Sivu 317 - My substance, was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes, did see my substance, yet being imperfect ; and, in thy book, all my members, were written, which, in continuance, were fashioned, when, as yet, there was none of them.
Sivu 207 - As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself...
Sivu 319 - Move upward, working out the beast, And let the ape and tiger die.
Sivu 247 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Sivu 277 - Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Sivu 299 - For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things which are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.