Beach Rambles in Search of Seaside Pebbles and Crystals: With Some Observations on the Origin of the Diamond and Other Precious StonesRoutledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1859 - 186 páginas |
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Página 132 - While the primitive and solid particles of matter continue entire, they may compose bodies of one and lie same nature and texture in all ages ; but should they wear away, or break in pieces, the nature of things depending on them would be changed. Water and earth, composed of old worn particles and fragments of particles, would not be of the same nature and texture now, with water and earth composed of entire particles...
Página 131 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them; and that these primitive particles being solids are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces, no ordinary power being able to...
Página 83 - The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, "Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.
Página 102 - Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak, She quells the floods below, As they roar on the shore When the stormy tempests blow ; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy tempests blow.
Página 132 - And therefore, that nature may be lasting, the changes of corporeal things are to be placed only in the various separations and new associations and motions of these permanent particles; compound bodies being apt to break not in the midst of solid particles, but where those particles are laid together and only touch in a few points.
Página 132 - ... to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them ; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them ; even so very hard as never to wear or break to pieces, no ordinary power being able to divide what God made one in the first creation.
Página 118 - Acadcmie des Sciences, 1721, writes : ' By a coarse operation emery is reduced to powder, and suspended in water several days ; but nature may go much further than this, for the particles which water detaches from hard stones by simple attrition are of an almost inconceivable degree of fineness. Water thus impregnated contributes to the formation of pebbles by petrifying the stone, as it were, a second time. Stones already formed, but having as yet a spongy texture, acquire a flinty hardness by impregnation...
Página 97 - Moreover here, better, we think, than in any inland scenery, Man can muse and meditate. That ever-varying curved line of moisture on the shore depicts the fluctuating changes which momentarily visit his " little day ;" the tide running in is the flood of his early life ; the tide running out is the ebb of his declining...
Página 3 - ... in kindred pursuits at the foot of the cliff, or away on the beach, or far out, at low tide, among the weedy rocks and sand. Here they hunt the cockle and the razor-shell, collect bright algse and marvellous zoophytes, or search for agates and fossils among the endless heaps of shingle.
Página 69 - But, though some of the happiest hours of my life have been passed there, I grudge to dilate upon the theme.