Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, เล่มที่ 1W. Pickering, 1837 - 747 หน้า |
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... length of time which is now occupied by a single revolution of the globe ; but successive periods , each of great extent and it has been asserted that the order of succession of the organic remains of a former world , accords with the ...
... length of time which is now occupied by a single revolution of the globe ; but successive periods , each of great extent and it has been asserted that the order of succession of the organic remains of a former world , accords with the ...
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... six days of creation as periods of time of indefinite length , and that the word " day " is not of necessity limited to twenty - four hours . favour of the hypothesis , " which supposes the word 18 CONSISTENCY OF GEOLOGICAL.
... six days of creation as periods of time of indefinite length , and that the word " day " is not of necessity limited to twenty - four hours . favour of the hypothesis , " which supposes the word 18 CONSISTENCY OF GEOLOGICAL.
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... length conducted back to a period anterior to the earliest of these systems ; a period in which we find a series of primary strata , wholly destitute of organic remains ; and from this circumstance , we infer their deposition to have ...
... length conducted back to a period anterior to the earliest of these systems ; a period in which we find a series of primary strata , wholly destitute of organic remains ; and from this circumstance , we infer their deposition to have ...
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... length to its body , and resembling that of an otter ; its probable use was to assist the animal in swimming . Another ( A. Medium ) was of a size and form more nearly approaching the light and graceful character of the Gazelle ; a ...
... length to its body , and resembling that of an otter ; its probable use was to assist the animal in swimming . Another ( A. Medium ) was of a size and form more nearly approaching the light and graceful character of the Gazelle ; a ...
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... length found myself , " says he , " as if placed in a charnel house , sur- rounded by mutilated fragments of many hun- dred skeletons , of more than twenty kinds of animals , piled confusedly around me : the task assigned me was , to ...
... length found myself , " says he , " as if placed in a charnel house , sur- rounded by mutilated fragments of many hun- dred skeletons , of more than twenty kinds of animals , piled confusedly around me : the task assigned me was , to ...
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adapted afford Agassiz air chambers allied Ammonites ancient animal and vegetable appear Baculite beds Belemnite body bones bony bottom calcareous Carboniferous cavity Chalk chambered shells character clay Coal formation composed condition Coniferæ contrivances Coprolites creation creatures Cretaceous Crocodiles Crustaceans Cuvier Cycadeæ deposits derived Dicotyledonous discovery earth Eningen entire evidence existing external shell extinct species feet Ferns fluid fossil fossil Fishes fossil species genera genus Geol Geology globe horny Ichthyosaurus Iguanodon important inhabitants ink-bag land limestone Lizards lobes Lyme Regis Mammalia marine mechanical Megatherium mineral nature Nautilus Nautilus Pompilius nearly occur Oolite organic remains peculiar perfect period plants Plesiosaurus portion present probably quadrupeds recent represents reptiles resembling ribs rocks sand sandstone Secondary similar siphuncle skeleton specimens stems strata stratum structure surface teeth Tertiary formations tion tooth Trans transverse plates Trilobites trunk vertebræ vertebral column whilst
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หน้า 224 - 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.
หน้า 596 - Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made, thou art God from everlasting, and world without end.
หน้า 212 - That it was aquatic, is evident from the form of its paddles ; that it was marine, is almost equally so, from the remains with which it is universally associated ; that it may have occasionally visited the shore, the resemblance of its extremities to those of the turtle may lead us to conjecture. Its motion, however, must have been very awkward on land; its long neck must have impeded its progress through the water ; presenting a striking contrast to the organisation which so admirably fits the Ichthyosaurus...
หน้า xii - CHEMISTRY, METEOROLOGY, AND THE FUNCTION OF DIGESTION, CONSIDERED WITH REFERENCE TO NATURAL THEOLOGY.
หน้า 10 - Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks in the scale of sciences next to astronomy.
หน้า 27 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day, and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
หน้า 23 - 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.
หน้า xi - ON THE POWER WISDOM AND GOODNESS OF GOD AS MANIFESTED IN THE ADAPTATION OF EXTERNAL, NATURE TO THE MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL CONSTITUTION OF MAN.
หน้า 458 - The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black color of these vegetables with the light groundwork of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels himself transported, as if by enchantment, into the forests of another world ; he beholds trees, of forms and characters now unknown upon the surface of the earth, presented to his senses, almost in the beauty and vigor of their primeval life...
หน้า 103 - The only evidence that has yet been collected upon this subject is negative ; but as far as this extends, no conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire series of geological formations...