The Wonders of Geology: Or, A Familiar Exposition of Geological Phenomena : Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures Delivered at Brighton, Volum 1A. H. Maltby, 1839 - 804 sider |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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The Wonders of Geology, Or, A Familiar Exposition of Geological ..., Volum 1 Gideon Algernon Mantell,George Fleming Richardson Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1838 |
The Wonders of Geology: Or, A Familiar Exposition of Geological ..., Volum 1 Gideon Algernon Mantell Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1839 |
The Wonders of Geology, Or, A Familiar Exposition of Geological ..., Volum 1 Gideon Algernon Mantell,George Fleming Richardson Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1838 |
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Side 108 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? 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
Side 6 - To conclude therefore, let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word or in the book of God's works ; divinity or philosophy ; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both...
Side 179 - 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 7 - ... from analogy, but by the incontrovertible evidence of physical phenomena) that there were former conditions of our planet, separated from each other by vast intervals of time, during which man, and the other creatures of his own date, had not been called into being.
Side 49 - 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 263 - 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 24 - Scripture accounts of time ; no fragments of buildings, no public monuments, no intaglios, cameos, statues, basso-relievos, medals, inscriptions, utensils, or artificial works of any kind are ever discovered, which may bear testimony to the existence of those mighty empires, those successions of monarchs, heroes, and demi-gods, for so many thousand years ? Let us look forward and suppose ten or twenty thousand years to come ; during which time we will suppose that plagues, famines, wars, and earthquakes...
Side 95 - 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! Thus shall memory often, in dreams sublime, Catch a glimpse of the days that are over, Thus, sighing, look through the waves of time For the long-faded glories they cover!
Side 49 - 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.
Side 75 - Nothing can be more melancholy," says Denon, "than to walk over villages swallowed up by the sand of the Desert, to trample under foot their roofs...