Relics from the Wreck of a Former World, Or, Splinters Gathered on the Shores of a Turbulent Planet: Proving to a Demonstration, the Vast Antiquity of the Earth, and the Existence of Animal Life, of the Most Fantastic Shapes, and the Most Elegent Colors ...W.H. Graham, 1847 - 96 pages |
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... have realized the wildest imaginings of the poet , and whose realities infinitely surpass , in grandeur and sublimity , the most imposing fictions of romance . } RELICS FROM THE WRECK OF A FORMER WORLD . PREFACE. ...
... have realized the wildest imaginings of the poet , and whose realities infinitely surpass , in grandeur and sublimity , the most imposing fictions of romance . } RELICS FROM THE WRECK OF A FORMER WORLD . PREFACE. ...
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... infinitely remote as to be situated at the distance of twelve millions of millions of millions of miles from our earth ; so that light , which travels with a velocity of twelve millions of miles in a minute , would require two millions ...
... infinitely remote as to be situated at the distance of twelve millions of millions of millions of miles from our earth ; so that light , which travels with a velocity of twelve millions of miles in a minute , would require two millions ...
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... infinitely minute as to be perfectly invisible to the most acute and perfect sight . The animalculæ form , in fact ... infinitely minute , like the infinitely magnificent , transcends our powers of observation , and we are left to admire ...
... infinitely minute as to be perfectly invisible to the most acute and perfect sight . The animalculæ form , in fact ... infinitely minute , like the infinitely magnificent , transcends our powers of observation , and we are left to admire ...
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... infinitely slow . We are sure that such an accumulation as should produce the primary strata as we now see them , must have occupied a space , from the con- templation of which the mind shrinks . * - The silurian rocks underlay the old ...
... infinitely slow . We are sure that such an accumulation as should produce the primary strata as we now see them , must have occupied a space , from the con- templation of which the mind shrinks . * - The silurian rocks underlay the old ...
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... conditions of the globe ; they offer * Greywacke , a name given to an indurated sandstone , belonging to the slate rocks . incontrovertible testimony to the existence of an infinitely intelligent and RELICS FROM THE WRECK 43.
... conditions of the globe ; they offer * Greywacke , a name given to an indurated sandstone , belonging to the slate rocks . incontrovertible testimony to the existence of an infinitely intelligent and RELICS FROM THE WRECK 43.
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Page 45 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 15 - Therefore let the moon Shine on thee in thy solitary walk; And let the misty mountain winds be free To blow against thee: and, in after years, When these wild ecstasies shall be matured Into a sober pleasure, when thy mind Shall be a mansion for all lovely forms, Thy memory be as a dwelling-place For all sweet sounds and harmonies...
Page 12 - The one led me to see a system in every star. The other leads me to see a world in every atom.
Page 61 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; ' The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Page 8 - gan war, and fowl with fowl, And fish with fish ; to graze the herb all leaving, Devoured each other; nor stood much in awe Of man, but fled him, or with countenance grim Glared on him passing.
Page 61 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night ! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; 690 Around her throne the vivid planets roll.
Page 64 - Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number; he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
Page 13 - Millions of millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill and toil unweariable, No moment and no movement unimproved, Laid line on line, on terrace terrace spread, To swell the heightening, brightening gradual mound, By marvellous structure climbing towards the day.
Page 34 - Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, 195 Lay floating many a rood...
Page 30 - ... 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...