The Wonders of Geology, Or, A Familiar Exposition of Geological Phenomena: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures Delivered at Brighton, Volum 1Relfe and Fletcher, 1838 |
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The Wonders of Geology: Or, A Familiar Exposition of Geological ..., Volum 1 Gideon Algernon Mantell Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1839 |
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Side 100 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, and many a tyrant since; their shores obey the stranger, slave, or savage; their decay has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, unchangeable, save to thy wild waves' play ; time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
Side 168 - My heart is awed within me, when I think Of the great miracle that still goes on, In silence, round me — the perpetual work Of thy creation, finished, yet renewed Forever.
Side 249 - The castled crag of Drachenfels (') Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine...
Side 45 - Yet more, the depths have more !—what wealth untold, Far down, and shining through their stillness lies ! Thou hast the starry gems, the burning gold, Won from ten thousand royal Argosies !— Sweep o'er thy spoils, thou wild and wrathful main ; Earth claims not these again.
Side 87 - On Lough Neagh's bank, as the fisherman strays, When the clear cold eve's declining, He sees the round towers of other days In the wave beneath him shining...
Side 69 - Nothing can be more melancholy, says this traveller, than to walk over villages swallowed up by the sand of the desert, to trample underfoot their roofs, to strike against the summits of their minarets, to reflect that yonder were cultivated fields, that there grew trees, that here were even the dwellings of men, and that all has vanished.
Side 27 - ... the earth. The fall of meteoric stones is much more frequent than is generally believed. Hardly a year passes without some instances occurring ; and, if it be considered that only a small part of the earth is inhabited, it may be presumed that numbers fall in the ocean, or on the uninhabited part of the land, unseen by man.
Side 28 - ... vertical line, with an initial velocity of 10,992 feet in a second — more than four times the velocity of a ball when first discharged from a cannon — instead of falling back to the moon by the attraction of gravity, it would come within the sphere of the earth's attraction, and revolve about it like a satellite. These bodies, impelled either by the direction of the primitive impulse, or by the disturbing action of the sun, might ultimately penetrate the earth's atmosphere, and arrive at...