Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 46
Página 16
... higher forms - and that all the changes , whether of a physical or of a vital nature , have ever been in accordance with certain modes and processes , or , in other words , under the unerring direction of fixed and enduring Law . Were ...
... higher forms - and that all the changes , whether of a physical or of a vital nature , have ever been in accordance with certain modes and processes , or , in other words , under the unerring direction of fixed and enduring Law . Were ...
Página 20
... higher and more exalted functions ? What more ennobling than the con- viction , that amidst all this mutation and progress - these ever - varying aspects and functions - there is a plan and design to which the whole has ever been ...
... higher and more exalted functions ? What more ennobling than the con- viction , that amidst all this mutation and progress - these ever - varying aspects and functions - there is a plan and design to which the whole has ever been ...
Página 22
... higher attributes of conscious intellect and will . Had geology made no other contribution to science than the revelation of the extinct forms of life , vegetable and animal , that lie entombed in the crust of the globe , it would have ...
... higher attributes of conscious intellect and will . Had geology made no other contribution to science than the revelation of the extinct forms of life , vegetable and animal , that lie entombed in the crust of the globe , it would have ...
Página 26
... higher standard of qualification demanded from their view- ers and engineers . To the builder and architect in quest of beautiful , strong , and durable materials for their structures , a knowledge of Geology cannot fail to be of ...
... higher standard of qualification demanded from their view- ers and engineers . To the builder and architect in quest of beautiful , strong , and durable materials for their structures , a knowledge of Geology cannot fail to be of ...
Página 33
... higher forms ; that all life is bound together by a common plan of evolu- tion ; that man himself partakes of this plan , and has been an inhabitant of the globe for untold centuries ; —when a science makes these and similar averments ...
... higher forms ; that all life is bound together by a common plan of evolu- tion ; that man himself partakes of this plan , and has been an inhabitant of the globe for untold centuries ; —when a science makes these and similar averments ...
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young Geologists David Page (F.G.S.) Visualização integral - 1869 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
accumulations acquainted agencies ages annelids antiquity basalts beds botany boulders breccias Cambrian Carboniferous causes chemical clay cliffs climate coal conglomerates crannoge Crown 8vo crustacea deposited drift Dura earth earth's crust Edition epoch estuaries evidence existing facts fauna fishes formation former fossil fractured fragments genera geologist geology glacial glacier globe gneiss granites gravel Greenland greenstones hath haue higher hills Holoptychius igneous islands knowledge labours lake lake-silts limestones marl masses matter metamorphism mind mineral modern natural sciences observation occur Old Red Sandstone Oolite operations origin paleozoic peat-mosses Permian phenomena physical geography plants and animals porphyries present day progress raised beaches recent rocky crust sand scenery schists schools scientific Scotland sea and land sea-shore shales shells shores silt Silurian soil species strata stratified rocks submerged surface TEXT-BOOK thousand tion trace upheaval vegetable vnto volcanic waste young geologist zoology
Passagens conhecidas
Página 306 - CAUVIN. A Treasury of the English and German Languages. Compiled from the best Authors and Lexicographers in both Languages. Adapted to the Use of Schools, Students, Travellers, and Men of Business; and forming a Companion to all German-English Dictionaries. By JOSEPH CAUVIN, LL.D. & Ph.D., of the University of Gottingen, &c. Crown 8vo, 7s.
Página 11 - HAMILTON. Lectures on Metaphysics. By Sir WILLIAM HAMILTON, Bart. , Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. Edited by the Rev. HL MANSEL, BD, LL.D., Dean of St Paul's ; and JOHN VEITCH, MA, Professor of Logic and Rhetoric, Glasgow.
Página 135 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Página 306 - Crown 8vo, 1s. 6d. Facts and Dates ; or, the Leading Events in Sacred and Profane History, and the Principal Facts in the various Physical Sciences. The Memory being aided throughout by a Simple and Natural Method. For Schools and Private Reference. New Edition, thoroughly...
Página 306 - BROWN. The Ethics of George Eliot's Works. By JOHN CROMBIE BROWN. Fourth Edition. Crown 8vo, 2s. 6d. BROWN. A Manual of Botany, Anatomical and Physiological.
Página 306 - POTTS AND DARNELL. Aditus Faciliores : An easy Latin Construing Book, with Complete Vocabulary. By AW POTTS, MA, LL.D., Head-Master of the Fettes College, Edinburgh, and sometime Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge; and the Rev. C. DARNELL, MA, Head-Master of Cargilfleld Preparatory School, Edinburgh, and late Scholar of Pembroke and Downing Colleges, Cambridge.
Página 306 - EXAMINATIONS IN NATURAL HISTORY; being a Progressive Series of Questions adapted to the Author's Introductory and Advanced Text-Books and the Student's Manual of Zoology. By the Same. Is.
Página 306 - A Glossary of Navigation. Containing the Definitions and Propositions of the Science, Explanation of Terms, and Description of Instruments. By the Rev. JB HARBORD, MA, Assistant Director of Education, Admiralty. Crown 8vo. Illustrated with Diagrams, 6s. Definitions and Diagrams in Astronomy and Navigation.
Página 306 - MINTO. A Manual of English Prose Literature, Biographical and Critical : designed mainly to show Characteristics of Style. By W. MINTO, MA, Professor of Logic in the University of Aberdeen. Third Edition, revised. Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. Characteristics of English Poets, from Chaucer to Shirley. New Edition, revised. Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d.