 | Peter Martin Duncan - 1882 - 388 pages
...selfish in me to devote myself as much as I hope to do to it." These sentiments did Lyell great honour. " My work is in part written, and all planned. It will...endeavour to establish the principle of reasoning on the science. All my geology will come in as illustrative of my views of those principles, and as... | |
 | 1882 - 904 pages
...politics. At the end of his tour he writes from Naples to Murchison (who had not accompanied him so far) : My work is in part written, and all planned. It will...abstract of all that is known in geology, but it will endeavor to establish the principle of reasoning in the science ; . . . that no causes whatever have,... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1926 - 384 pages
...Reference to Causes now in Operation," was published. It will not pretend, [he wrote to Murchison], to give even an abstract of all that is known in geology, but it will endeavor to establish the principles of reasoning in the science ; and all my geology will come in... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen - 1985 - 742 pages
...is known in Geology," it "will endeavour to establish the principles of reasoning in the science & all my Geology will come in as illustration of my views of those principles, & as evidences strengthening the system necessarily arising out of the admission of such principles."... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1990 - 594 pages
...fieldwork in a long letter to Murchison. He described the book he was planning in the following terms: My work is in part written, and all planned. It will...in geology, but it will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in the science; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my views... | |
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It will not pretend to give even an abstract of all that is known in geology, but it will endeavour to establish the principle of reasoning in the science ; and all my geology 'will come in as illustration of my views of those principles, and as evidence... 