 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1845 - 558 sivua
...taught in our principal seat of learning ! Hear what Sir John Herschell says of this fascinating study : "Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks next to Astronomy in the scale of the sciences.!" We might fill a volume with the opinions of the learned... | |
 | 1846 - 576 sivua
...State of the Population in the Mining Districts. London, 1 844. — Report of do. do. London, 1845. " GEOLOGY, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects...which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of sciences, next to astronomy." This remark of Sir John Herschel is verified by the most cursory glance... | |
 | 1846 - 576 sivua
...the Population in the Mining Districts. London, 1 844. — Report of do. do. London, 1845. " GEOLOGT, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of sciences, next to astronomy." This remark of Sir John Herschel is verified by the most cursory glance... | |
 | Peter Jones (fict.name.) - 1848 - 228 sivua
...and ull the Sons of God shouU-d for joy." — Book of Job. "Geology, in the magnitude and sublimily of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks,...in the scale of the sciences, next to Astronomy." — SIR JOHN HERSCHEL. PETEB JONES, even in the days of his utter igno ranee, had become familiar with... | |
 | Hamilton Lanphere Smith - 1848 - 336 sivua
...and to elevate and ennoble it by loftier contemplations. The younger Herschel, has truly remarked, " Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks next to Astronomy in the scale of the sciences." We have, in the present volume, associated the two,... | |
 | Robert Hunt - 1849 - 538 sivua
...a totally different character; and it is such observers as these who induced Herschel to say truly, that " geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of...undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy."(225) The origin of this planet is involved in great obscurity, which the powers of the... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1849 - 146 sivua
...from shore to shore ; While tempest-tost, seek the lov'd — the lostBut find them on earth no more ! Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, ranks next to Astronomy in the scale of the sciences. SirJ.FW HERSCHEL. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES. Note I.... | |
 | Samuel St. John - 1851 - 370 sivua
...OF S BY SAMUEL ST. JOHN, PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY AND OEOLOGY IN WESTERN RESERVE COLLEGE. Chimborazo. "Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks next to Astronomy in the scale of the Sciences." Sir JFW NEW-YORK : GEORGE P. PUTNAM, 155 BROADWAY.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1851 - 608 sivua
...old, it is rising fast into a proved science, as Herschcl has pronounced it, second only to astronomy in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, and almost equally wonderful in its scope and discoveries. Some very pious and orthodox writers question... | |
 | Rosina Maria Zornlin - 1852 - 418 sivua
...rocks and cliffs on the sea-shore ; to the beds exposed to our view in the excavations of a road ; to the very pebbles scattered in our path,* — all...to the latter science. The distances treated of in astro* The Author bas not unfrequently met with well preserved fossils among the pebbles of a garden... | |
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geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy... 
