Foot-prints of the Creator, Or, The Asterolepis of StromnessJohnstone and Hunter, 1851 - 308 pages |
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Agassiz ages algæ ancient animals appear assertors Asterolepis bear belief bimana bones brain Carboniferous cartilaginous Celacanth cerebral character Coccosteus coprolites cranial buckler cranium creation creature Cuvier degradation deposits dermal detected development hypothesis Diplopterus Dipterus division dog-fish dynasty earth embryotic evidence exhibited existence fact feet fins flora fossil frontal fucoids furnished ganoids genera genus geological geologist head higher Holoptychius human hyoid plate ichthyic ichthyolites inches least lignite limbs Lower Old Red mammals Miller miracle molluscs naturalist nature occipital occur Oken Old Red Sandstone organization original osseous fishes Osteolepis peculiar period plants Port Jackson Shark portion present principle Professor Owen Pterichthys quadruped race rays regarding represented reptiles resemblance rocks Roderick Murchison scale shagreen Sharks Silurian System skeleton skull species specimens spinal spines surface tail teeth theory Thurso tion upper vegetation vertebral vertebral column vertebrata Vestiges
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Page 308 - New heavens, new earth, ages of endless date Founded in righteousness, and peace, and love, To bring forth fruits, joy and eternal bliss.
Page 32 - His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral...
Page 285 - Every sound — the faintest motion of the air — arrests our attention, and we no longer trust the ground on which we stand. There is an idea conveyed to the mind, of some universal and unlimited danger. We may flee from the crater of a volcano in active eruption, or from the dwelling whose destruction is threatened by the approach of the lava stream ; but in an earthquake, direct our flight whithersoever we will, we still feel as if we trod upon the very focus of destruction.
Page 244 - ... the dullest of that numerous and hardy genus; a thrift, blue in flower, but withering and remaining withered till the winter scatters it; the saltwort, both simple and shrubby; a few kinds of grass changed by their...
Page 54 - ... the miracle of creation. The evangelistic Churches cannot, in consistency with their character, or with a due regard to the interests of their people, slight or overlook a form of error at once exceedingly plausible and consummately dangerous, and which is telling so widely on society, that one can scarce travel by railway or in a steamboat, or encounter a group of intelligent mechanics, without finding decided trace of its ravages.
Page 293 - Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Page 18 - ... schists. In short, the young geologist, had he all Europe before him, could hardly choose for himself a better field. I had, however, no one to tell me so at the time, for Geology had not yet travelled so far north; and so, without guide or vocabulary, I had to grope my way as I best might, and find out all its wonders for myself. But so slow was the process, and so much was I a seeker in the dark, that the facts contained in these few sentences were the patient gatherings of years.
Page 282 - Raffaelle has failed adequately to portray — the history of all the past and of all the future had been symbolized. In the order of Providence intimated in the geologic record the brute faces, as in the vision, outnumber the human : the human dynasty is one and the dynasties of the inferior animals are three; and yet who can doubt that they all equally compose parts of a well-ordered and perfect whole, as the four faces formed but one cherubim ; that they have been moving onward to a definite goal...
Page 16 - We had a few capital shots: the fragments flew in every direction; and an immense mass of the diluvium came toppling down, bearing with it two dead birds, that in a recent storm had crept into one of the deeper fissures, to die in the shelter.
Page 243 - The few dull flowers that o'er the place are spread Partake the nature of their fenny bed; Here on its wiry stem, in rigid bloom, Grows the salt lavender that lacks perfume ; Here the dwarf sallows creep, the septfoil harsh, And the soft slimy mallow of the marsh; Low on the ear the distant billows sound, And just in view appears their stony bound...
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The Book of Nature in Early Modern and Modern History Klaas van Berkel,Arie Johan Vanderjagt Limited preview - 2006 |