The leading idea which is present in all our researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound which to the ear of the student of Nature seems continually echoed from every part of her works is — Time... Geological Magazine - Página 198editado por - 1866Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1827 - 634 páginas
...intellectual appetencies. , Every step we take in the pursuit of geology, observes Mr. Scrope, ' forces UB to make almost unlimited drafts upon antiquity. The...continually echoed from every part of her works is — Time !' * Now these enlarged conceptions of the earth's antiquity have been deemed by some to derogate from... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1828 - 618 páginas
...sciences, makes us acquainted with this important, though humiliating, fact. Every step we take in its pursuit, forces us to make almost unlimited drafts...sound which to the ear of the student of Nature seems continuedly echoed from every part of her works, is— ' Time ! Time ! Time ! ' At ^ast, since, by... | |
| 1827 - 630 páginas
...these intellectual appetencies. Every step we take in the pursuit of geology, observes Mr. Scrope, ' forces us to make almost unlimited drafts upon antiquity....continually echoed from every part of her works is — Time !' * Now these enlarged conceptions of the earth's antiquity have 'been deemed by some to derogate... | |
| George Poulett Scrope - 1858 - 344 páginas
...sciences, makes us acquainted with this important though, humiliating fact. Even' step we take in its pursuit forces us to make almost unlimited drafts...our researches, and which accompanies every fresh tensive denudations, and accumulate vast beds of transported fragments along the conrse of these mighty... | |
| George Poulett Scrope - 1858 - 362 páginas
...sciences, makes us acquainted with this important though humiliating fact . Every step we take in its pursuit forces us to make almost unlimited drafts...our researches, and which accompanies every fresh tensive denudations, and accumulate vast beds of transported fragments along the course of these mighty... | |
| G. Poulett Scrope - 1858 - 598 páginas
...That story ia yet to be written, but not by the eccentric author of the recent work under that title. observation, the sound which to the ear of the student...continually echoed from every part of her works, is— Time!—Time !—Time! * At least, since by a fortunate concurrence of igneous and aqueous phenomena... | |
| Henry Eley - 1859 - 288 páginas
...sciences, makes us acquainted with this important, though humiliating fact. Every step we take in its pursuit forces us to make almost unlimited drafts...nature seems continually echoed from every part of her work is — Time ! Time ! Time ! " We cannot help taking the reader to yet one other region, where... | |
| Henry Woodward - 1866 - 654 páginas
...the slate-plateau in these symmetrical and regular curves. " The time that must be allowed for tho production of effects of this magnitude by causes...continually echoed from every part of her works, is Time ! — Time!— Time I"3 1 See Dr. Eubidge's paper on the Denudation of South Africa. GEOL. MAO., TO!,... | |
| Henry Woodward - 1867 - 672 páginas
...geologists should be allowed immeasurable time. The last Wollaston Medallist has eloquently said, " The leading idea which is present in all our researches,...continually echoed from every part of her works is Time ! Time 1 Time ! " l Lastly, it seems to me that the discussion on the question of denudation has been... | |
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