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 страници |
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... species - that successive races flourished , decayed and altogether vanished , long anterior to the appearance of man upon the stage of life - is a conclusion of which irre- fragable evidence is afforded in the myriad forms of once ...
... species - that successive races flourished , decayed and altogether vanished , long anterior to the appearance of man upon the stage of life - is a conclusion of which irre- fragable evidence is afforded in the myriad forms of once ...
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... to contain 500,000,000 individuals . Not less astonishing is their power of multiplication , an in- dividual of one species increasing in ten days to 1,000,000 of on the eleventh day to 4,000,000 , and on 10 RELICS FROM THE WRECK.
... to contain 500,000,000 individuals . Not less astonishing is their power of multiplication , an in- dividual of one species increasing in ten days to 1,000,000 of on the eleventh day to 4,000,000 , and on 10 RELICS FROM THE WRECK.
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... species , whose mineralised skeletons actually con- stitute nearly the whole mass of some tertiary soils and rocks several feet in thickness , and extending over areas of many acres . Such is the Polirschiefer , or polishing slate of ...
... species , whose mineralised skeletons actually con- stitute nearly the whole mass of some tertiary soils and rocks several feet in thickness , and extending over areas of many acres . Such is the Polirschiefer , or polishing slate of ...
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... species and the diversified phenomena of their existence , that , as with the vast and un numbered orbs above us , the mind is lost in the immensity of the contem- plation ; we find that the infinitely minute , like the infinitely ...
... species and the diversified phenomena of their existence , that , as with the vast and un numbered orbs above us , the mind is lost in the immensity of the contem- plation ; we find that the infinitely minute , like the infinitely ...
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... species . 66 " Every rock in the desert , every boulder on the plain , every pebble by the brook - side , every grain of sand on the sea - shore , is replete with les- sons of wisdom to the mind that is fitted to receive and comprehend ...
... species . 66 " Every rock in the desert , every boulder on the plain , every pebble by the brook - side , every grain of sand on the sea - shore , is replete with les- sons of wisdom to the mind that is fitted to receive and comprehend ...
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Страница 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.
Страница 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; oh!
Страница 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 ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 12 - ... me to see a world in every atom. The one taught me that this mighty globe, with the whole burden of...