Nor does the flora of the Oolite seem to have been in the least suited for the purposes of the shepherd or herdsman. Not until we enter on the Tertiary periods do we find floras amid which man might have profitably laboured... A Theory of the Universe - Página 631868 - 91 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Hugh Miller - 1857 - 520 páginas
...of a resembling east. So far as appears, neither flock nor herd could have lived on its greenest and richest plains. Nor does even the flora of the Oolite...we find floras amid which man might have profitably laboured as a dresser of gardens, a tiller of fields, or a keeper of flocks and herds. Nay, there are... | |
| Jabez Hogg - 1858 - 644 páginas
...unfitted, apparently, for the support of either graminivorous bird or herbivorous quadruped. Nor does the flora of the Oolite seem to have been in the least...we find floras amid which man might have profitably laboured : nay, there are whole orders and families of plants, of the very first importance to man,... | |
| Jabez Hogg - 1859 - 650 páginas
...unfitted, apparently, for the support of either graminiverous bird or herbivorous quadruped. Nor does the flora of the Oolite seem to have been in the least...herdsman. Not until we enter on the Tertiary periods do wo find floras amid which man might have profitably laboured : nay, there are whole orders and families... | |
| Jabez Hogg - 1861 - 650 páginas
...unfitted, apparently, for the support of either graminiverous bird or herbivorous quadruped. Nor does the flora of the Oolite seem to have been in the least...we find floras amid which man might have profitably laboured: nay, there are whole orders and families of plants, of the very first importance to man,... | |
| Jabez Hogg - 1861 - 652 páginas
...unfitted, apparently, for the support of either graminiverous bird or herbivorous quadruped. Nor does the flora of the Oolite seem to have been in the least...the Tertiary periods do we find floras amid which mail might have profitably laboured : nay, there are whole orders and families of plants, of the very... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1862 - 498 páginas
...of a resembling cast. So far as appears, neither flock nor herd could have lived on its greenest and richest plains. Nor does even the flora of the Oolite...we find floras amid which man might have profitably laboured as a dresser of gardens, a tiller of fields, or a keeper of flocks and herds. Nay, there are... | |
| 1867 - 214 páginas
...of a resembling cast. So far as appears, neither flock nor herd could have lived on its greenest and richest plains ; nor does even the flora of the Oolite...we find floras amid which man might have profitably laboured as* a dresser of gardens, a tiller of fields, or a keeper of flocks and herds. Nay, there... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1865 - 530 páginas
...of a resembling cast. So far as appears, neither flock nor herd could have lived on its greenest and richest plains ; nor does even the flora of the Oolite...floras amid which man might have profitably labored ns a dresser of gardens, a tiller of fields, or a keeper of flocks and herds. Nay, there arc whole... | |
| William Paul - 1870 - 176 páginas
...above compare the following passage from Hugh Miller's work on the " Testimony of the Eocks," p. 48. " Not, until we enter on the tertiary periods do we find floras amid which man might have profitably laboured as a dresser of gardens, a tiller of fields, or a keeper of flocks and herds. Nay there are... | |
| J. Boyes - 1873 - 208 páginas
...his " Testimony of the Rocks," offers the following equally striking and pertinent remarks : — " Not until we enter on the Tertiary periods, do we find floras, amid which man might have profitably laboured as a dresser of gardens, or a keeper of flocks and herds. Nay, there are whole orders and... | |
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