The Edinburgh Review, Volume 38A. and C. Black, 1823 |
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... Geology of England and Wales , with an Introductory Compendium of the General Principles of that Science , illustrated by a coloured Map and Sections , & c . By the Rev. W. D. Conybeare , F.R.S. M.G.S. & c . and William Philips ...
... Geology of England and Wales , with an Introductory Compendium of the General Principles of that Science , illustrated by a coloured Map and Sections , & c . By the Rev. W. D. Conybeare , F.R.S. M.G.S. & c . and William Philips ...
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... Geology has been singularly cruel . This new science seems to be the butt at which every Tyro thinks himself entitled to fly his shaft . Emerging , with the shell on his head , from some class , of some professor , somewhere , ―well ...
... Geology has been singularly cruel . This new science seems to be the butt at which every Tyro thinks himself entitled to fly his shaft . Emerging , with the shell on his head , from some class , of some professor , somewhere , ―well ...
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... geology ; nor do we think we over- rate its difficulties when we say , that we know of none which , as far as the mere ... geological positions in different parts of an obscure series , a knowledge of conchology is confessedly of great ...
... geology ; nor do we think we over- rate its difficulties when we say , that we know of none which , as far as the mere ... geological positions in different parts of an obscure series , a knowledge of conchology is confessedly of great ...
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... geological science ; a branch which , in the case of the remains of large animals found in the alluvia , is ... geologist should be a Cuvier or a La Marck ; but we have a right to expect , that every one who fancies himself capable of ...
... geological science ; a branch which , in the case of the remains of large animals found in the alluvia , is ... geologist should be a Cuvier or a La Marck ; but we have a right to expect , that every one who fancies himself capable of ...
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... geologist who intends to understand his science and to instruct others : But he will still be very unfit for his task , if he has not provided himself with many other preli- minary branches of knowledge . Many important points in geological ...
... geologist who intends to understand his science and to instruct others : But he will still be very unfit for his task , if he has not provided himself with many other preli- minary branches of knowledge . Many important points in geological ...
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