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... equally extensive , and which occupy an important place in the economy of nature . These are the granites and whinstones of which the highest mountain ranges are usually composed . There are many subordinate varieties belonging to both ...
... equally extensive , and which occupy an important place in the economy of nature . These are the granites and whinstones of which the highest mountain ranges are usually composed . There are many subordinate varieties belonging to both ...
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... equally desolate , savage , and grand . He may make his selection as the feeling of the moment prompts , but he will not be able to congratulate himself as the traveler in a different field— Hic locus est , partes ubi se via fundit in ...
... equally desolate , savage , and grand . He may make his selection as the feeling of the moment prompts , but he will not be able to congratulate himself as the traveler in a different field— Hic locus est , partes ubi se via fundit in ...
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... equally erudite - sounding names . The onchus type is continued , and greatly multiplied in species , in the two succeed- ing formations , when it dies out , or at least no trace of the genus is found in later times ; while the rest ...
... equally erudite - sounding names . The onchus type is continued , and greatly multiplied in species , in the two succeed- ing formations , when it dies out , or at least no trace of the genus is found in later times ; while the rest ...
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... equally impervious nettings , there are of the larger scales , from twenty - six to thirty covering the sides , thereby com- pleting a mail - clad figure of a singularly warlike aspect , and bid- ding defiance , like his great anti ...
... equally impervious nettings , there are of the larger scales , from twenty - six to thirty covering the sides , thereby com- pleting a mail - clad figure of a singularly warlike aspect , and bid- ding defiance , like his great anti ...
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... equally met with in the embryos ; and on the other hand , the distant resemblance of these fishes to certain types of reptiles , present the most curious assemblage of charac- ters that can possibly be conceived . A third group of ...
... equally met with in the embryos ; and on the other hand , the distant resemblance of these fishes to certain types of reptiles , present the most curious assemblage of charac- ters that can possibly be conceived . A third group of ...
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Agassiz ancient animal appear arrangements basalt basin beds belong betwixt bones calcareous carboniferous causes cephalaspis chain chalk changes character clay coal coal-field coal-measures coccosteus consist constitute contains course of creation creatures crust crustaceans crystalline deposits detected devonian district Divine earth elevation entire Eocene existing extended extinct feet feldspar fishes flora formation fossil fossiliferous genera genus geological epochs geologist geology globe gneiss Grampians granite greenstone Hence hills Holoptychius hundred igneous inclosed island lakes land limestone marine mass materials matter miles mineral mountains nature nearly ocean old red sandstone oolitic organic remains origin period phenomena plants pleiocene porphyries present prevailed produced Pterichthys quadrupeds races remarkable reptiles resemblance rivers rocks sand scale shells silurian species specimens strata structure surface terrestrial tertiary thickness things thousand tion traced tribes trilobites types valleys various vast vegetable volcanic waters wealden whole
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Sida 121 - And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar...
Sida 86 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled ; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Sida 228 - Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Sida 89 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Sida 93 - Space may produce new worlds; whereof so rife There went a fame in Heaven that he ere long Intended to create, and therein plant A generation whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the Sons of Heaven.
Sida 315 - Or bright infers not excellence : the earth Though, in comparison of heaven, so small, Nor glistering, may of solid good contain More plenty than the sun that barren shines...
Sida 352 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Sida 357 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens...
Sida 156 - ... band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left ; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream still let me stray, Though none should guide my feeble way ; Still feel the breeze down Ettrick break, Although it chill my withered cheek ; Still lay my head by Teviot stone, Though there, forgotten and alone, The Bard...
Sida 86 - They go up by the mountains; They go down by the valleys Unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.