Sketches of Creation: A Popular View of Some of the Grand Conclusions of the Sciences in Reference to the History of Matter and of Life. Together with a Statement of the Intimations of Science Respecting the Primordial Condition and the Ultimate Destiny of the Earth and the Solar System |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 85
Page vi
... Nature must be capable of fulfilling the offices of a revelation , and a knowledge of her phenomena and laws must ... Natural Theology - to which , indeed , fourfold strength is added by the later developments of the phys- ical sciences ...
... Nature must be capable of fulfilling the offices of a revelation , and a knowledge of her phenomena and laws must ... Natural Theology - to which , indeed , fourfold strength is added by the later developments of the phys- ical sciences ...
Page vii
... Nature ; who delight to contemplate the sublime , persistent , all- comprehending , and beneficent plans of Deity unfolding through geological cycles toward definite and intelligible ends ; in short , to all who love to " Look through ...
... Nature ; who delight to contemplate the sublime , persistent , all- comprehending , and beneficent plans of Deity unfolding through geological cycles toward definite and intelligible ends ; in short , to all who love to " Look through ...
Page 14
... have ever belonged to living animals . They are probably but " mere freaks of nature . " Perhaps they have been produced by " the influences of the stars . " Or , it may be , there is some mysterious 14 SKETCHES OF CREATION .
... have ever belonged to living animals . They are probably but " mere freaks of nature . " Perhaps they have been produced by " the influences of the stars . " Or , it may be , there is some mysterious 14 SKETCHES OF CREATION .
Page 15
... Nature are the premises of our reasoning instead of its conclusions . We have learned to look upon Nature with a profounder respect ; and , though the alphabet of our philosophy be trees , and birds , and rocks , and fossils , and other ...
... Nature are the premises of our reasoning instead of its conclusions . We have learned to look upon Nature with a profounder respect ; and , though the alphabet of our philosophy be trees , and birds , and rocks , and fossils , and other ...
Page 23
... Nature had herself or dained its abandonment . The rock on which the brave General Wolfe landed has nearly disappeared . The sea now flows within the walls of the city , and sites once in- habited have become the ocean's bed . In 1822 ...
... Nature had herself or dained its abandonment . The rock on which the brave General Wolfe landed has nearly disappeared . The sea now flows within the walls of the city , and sites once in- habited have become the ocean's bed . In 1822 ...
Contents
105 | |
110 | |
122 | |
139 | |
149 | |
164 | |
173 | |
195 | |
199 | |
213 | |
222 | |
229 | |
331 | |
339 | |
350 | |
373 | |
380 | |
390 | |
397 | |
402 | |
408 | |
417 | |
428 | |
433 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accumulated ages Amer American ancient animals basin beds beneath bones bottom Brachiopods brine buried Carboniferous coal Coal-measures condition continent coral Corniferous creation crust deep deposited depth destined Devonian earth Eozoön epoch excavated existence extended extinct farther fishes forest formation forms fossil Garpikes geological geologists glacier globe gorge granite Gulf gypsum heat higher human hundred feet Ichthyosaurs intelligence Island Lake Huron Lake Michigan Lake Ontario Lake Superior land length limestone lower mass mastodon materials Mesozoic Michigan miles Mississippi molluscs molten Mountains Nature Niagara Niagara River North northern ocean Ohio organic Paleozoic period planet portion prairie present primeval quadrupeds race region remains reptiles ridge River rocks rocky saliferous salt sand sandstone sediments shale shells shores Silurian soil solar solid Southern species stone strata stream succession surface terrestrial thousand tion trees Trilobites valley vapor vast vegetation vertebrates waters
Popular passages
Page 118 - ... CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. THIS is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare ; Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl, — Wrecked is the ship of pearl ! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell...
Page 4 - DU CHAILLU'S AFRICA. Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa, with Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Chase of the Gorilla, the Crocodile, Leopard, Elephant, Hippopotamus, and other Animals.
Page 54 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh ! night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong ; Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along From peak to peak the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue...
Page 118 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil ; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Page 108 - DEEP in the wave is a coral grove. Where the purple mullet and goldfish rove, Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with falling dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine, Far down in the green and glassy brine...
Page 1 - MOTLEY'S DUTCH REPUBLIC. The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL With a Portrait of William of Orange.
Page 1 - With a full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
Page 118 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, —...
Page 1 - WHYMPER'S ALASKA. Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska, formerly Russian America— now Ceded to the United States— and in various other parts of the North Pacific.
Page 433 - And fuelled entrails thence conceiving fire, Sublimed* with mineral fury, aid the winds, And leave a singed bottom all involved With stench and smoke: such resting found the sole Of unblest feet.