Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club

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1867
 

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Page 149 - Eternal Maker has ordain'd The powers of man; we feel within ourselves His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active. Thus the men Whom Nature's works can charm, with God himself Hold converse; grow familiar, day by day, With his conceptions, act upon his plan; And form to his, the relish of their souls.
Page 155 - ... creatures whose very type is lost, fantastic and uncouth, and which puzzle the naturalist to assign them even their class ; boat-like animals, furnished with oars and a rudder ; fish plated over, like the tortoise, above and below, with a strong armour of bone, and furnished with but one solitary rudder-like fin ; other fish, less equivocal in their form, but with the membranes of their fins thickly covered with scales; creatures bristling over with thorns; others glistening in an enamelled coat,...
Page 280 - Caesars' palace came The owl's long cry, and, interruptedly Of distant sentinels the fitful song Begun and died upon the gentle wind. Some cypresses beyond the time-worn breach Appear'd to skirt the horizon, yet they stood Within a...
Page 228 - By the lone fountain's secret bed, Where human footsteps rarely tread, 'Mid the wild moor or silent glen, The Sundew blooms unseen by men ; Spreads there her leaf of rosy hue, A chalice for the morning dew, And, ere the summer's sun can rise, Drinks the pure waters of the skies.
Page 270 - The king is at once recognised by the inscribed scroll, jfce's 3Eifoar&us «x ; the figure of the suppliant, to whom the charter is accorded, is represented as of much smaller proportion than that of the sovereign, in accordance with a conventional principle of design in old times, by which persons of inferior station were often represented as of diminutive size, in comparison with their more powerful neighbours. Over the head of this smaller figure is a scroll, which bears the following inscription...
Page 155 - ... to the extreme termination of the fin. All the forms testify of a remote antiquity — of a period whose fashions have passed away. The figures on a Chinese vase or an Egyptian obelisk are scarcely more unlike what now exists in nature than the fossils of the old red sandstone.
Page 173 - ... determined by calculation. Geological phenomena of every order can be expressed in terms of magnitude, as the uplifting of mountains, the deposition of strata, the numerical changes of the forms of life. The time required to produce these effects can be calculated if we know at what rate in time, whether uniform or not, they were produced : if we know, not the true rate, but the limits within which...
Page 194 - And, here, narcissus root, for swellings best : Yellow lysimachus, to give sweet rest To the faint shepherd, killing, where it comes, All busy gnats, and every fly that hums : For leprosy...
Page 198 - In a passage, which is the continuation of that already cited, he writes: — "(3) The microscopical structure and chemical composition of the beds of cannel coal and earthy bitumen, and of the more highly bituminous and carbonaceous shale, show them to have been of the nature of the fine vegetable mud which accumulates in the ponds and shallow lakes of modern swamps.
Page 166 - ... there was a large attendance of members from various parts of the district.

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