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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... passing . ' " The opening verse of the Scriptures announces the fact of a dependant universe being created by the Almighty , but assigns no date to the mighty operation . Geology de- mands nothing beyond what this indefinite enunciation ...
... passing . ' " The opening verse of the Scriptures announces the fact of a dependant universe being created by the Almighty , but assigns no date to the mighty operation . Geology de- mands nothing beyond what this indefinite enunciation ...
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... passed away ; with how much deeper feeling of admiration must we consider those grand monuments of nature which mark the revolutions of the Globe ; continents broken into islands ; one land produced , another destroyed ; the bottom of ...
... passed away ; with how much deeper feeling of admiration must we consider those grand monuments of nature which mark the revolutions of the Globe ; continents broken into islands ; one land produced , another destroyed ; the bottom of ...
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... passed one day by a very ancient and populous city and I asked one of its inhabitants how long it had been founded ? ' It is , indeed , a mighty city , ' replied he ; ' we know not how long it has existed , and our ancestors were on ...
... passed one day by a very ancient and populous city and I asked one of its inhabitants how long it had been founded ? ' It is , indeed , a mighty city , ' replied he ; ' we know not how long it has existed , and our ancestors were on ...
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... passed away . " The carboniferoust formation excluding the mountain limestone , and millstone grit , measures 1900 yards in thick- ness . Many of the limestones in this formation consist almost entirely of organic remains . Beds of ...
... passed away . " The carboniferoust formation excluding the mountain limestone , and millstone grit , measures 1900 yards in thick- ness . Many of the limestones in this formation consist almost entirely of organic remains . Beds of ...
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... passed before us . Let it be distinctly understood , that the object of these remarks is to prove , on geological grounds , the greater antiquity of the earth than that generally assigned to it . The first argument in favor of the ...
... passed before us . Let it be distinctly understood , that the object of these remarks is to prove , on geological grounds , the greater antiquity of the earth than that generally assigned to it . The first argument in favor of the ...
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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...