 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1881 - 504 pages
...success. I shall never hope to make money by geology, but not to lose, and tax others for my aninsenient ; and unless I can secure this, it would in my circumstances...now exert. I must go to Germany, and learn German 18:9. RESOLVE TO LEARN GERMAN. 235 geology and the language, after this work is published, and hefore... | |
 | Peter Martin Duncan - 1882 - 376 pages
...admission of such principles, which as you know, are neither more nor less than, that no causes w/iatever have, from the earliest time to which we can look...degrees of energy from that which they now exert." If I can but earn the wherewith to carry on the war, or rather, its extraordinary costs, depend upon... | |
 | 1882 - 904 pages
...present, ever acted, but those now acting ; and that they never acted with different degrees of energj from that which they now exert. I must go to Germany...after this work is published, and before I launch out into my tables of equivalents. . . . This year we have hy our joint tour fathomed the depth and ascertained... | |
 | John Wesley Judd - 1910 - 202 pages
...have from the earliest time to which we can look back to the present, ever acted, but those that are now acting, and that they never acted with different...degrees of energy from that which they now exert'; but in 1833, in dedicating his third volume to Murchison, he refers to the MS., completed in 1827,... | |
 | 1916 - 388 pages
...surface have been due to operations similar to those still going on around us, but that these "have never acted with different degrees of energy from that which they now exert. ' ' 39 In other words, he advocated the view that things have come 37 "There has prevailed in the main,... | |
 | Frederick John Teggart - 1916 - 244 pages
...surface have been due to operations similar to those still going on around us, but that these "have never acted with different degrees of energy from that which they now exert. ' ' 39 In other words, he advocated the view that things have come 37 ' ' There has prevailed in the... | |
 | Frederick John Teggart - 1916 - 144 pages
...surface have been due to operations similar to those still going on around us, but that these "have never acted with different degrees of energy from that which they now exert."s9 In other words, he advocated the view that things have come s7 "There has prevailed in the... | |
 | University of California, Berkeley - 1916 - 332 pages
...surface have been due to operations similar to those still going on around us, but that these "have never acted with different degrees of energy from that which they now exert. ' ' 30 In other words, he advocated the view that things have come s7 "There has prevailed in the main,... | |
 | M. J. S. Rudwick - 1985 - 303 pages
...among others. Lyell's second principle was far more debatable in its implications: that these processes "never acted with different degrees of energy from that which they now exert". This conviction arose naturally enough out of Lyell's realisation, in an area of active vulcanism and... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen - 1985 - 742 pages
...time to which we can look back to the present ever acted but those now acting" and that these causes "never acted with different degrees of energy from that which they now exert." Seventeen chapters of his book, according to Wilson, "fulfilled the promise in the title 'to explain... | |
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... no causes whatever have from the earliest time to which we can look back, to the present, ever acted, but those now acting ; and that they never acted with different degrees of energy from that which they now exert. 
