Persons to whom this subject may now be presented for the first time will receive, with much surprise, perhaps almost with incredulity, such statements as are -here advanced. It must be admitted that they at first seem much more like the dreams of fiction... The Quarterly Review - Seite 47herausgegeben von - 1836Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 612 Seiten
...secondary series, when so large a field was occupied by extinct animals, referable to the order of Sauricms or lizards, ' An aye of reptiles, when neither the...calm and deliberate investigation ; but to those who \viil examine the evidence of facts upon which the conclusions rest, there can remain no more reasonable... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 610 Seiten
...panoply of his bony armour, where was the enemy that would dare encounter this leviathan of the Pampas 1 or in what more powerful creature can we find the...investigation ; but to those who will examine the evidence of facts upon which the conclusions rest, there can remain no more reasonable doubt of the former existence... | |
| 1836 - 1184 Seiten
...proofs of the infinitely varied, and inexhaustible contrivances of creative wisdom.'—pp. 163, 104. We are next carried back to those distant ages during...investigation ; but to those who will examine the evidence of facts upon which the conclusions rest, there can remain no more reasonable doubt of the former existence... | |
| William Buckland - 1837 - 476 Seiten
...progressive stages of animal creation, when the first parents of the human race were called into existence. Persons to whom this subject may now be presented...almost with incredulity, such statements as are here advauced. It must be admitted, that they at first seem much more like the dreams of fiction and romance,... | |
| William John Broderip - 1847 - 434 Seiten
...be granted is startling ; but it is not more startling than true : hear Dr. Buckland again : — " Persons to whom this subject may now be presented...investigation ; but, to those who will examine the evidence of facts upon which our conclusions rest, there can remain no more reasonable doubt of the former existence... | |
| 1848 - 876 Seiten
...stages of animal creation, when the first parents of the human race were called into existence.' .... ' Persons to whom this subject may now be presented...investigation; but to those who will examine the evidence of facts upon which our conclusions rest, there can remain no more reasonable doubt of the former existence... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 Seiten
...found distributed among three distinct classes of the animal kingdom. " Persons," says Dr. Buckland, "to whom this subject may now be presented for the...investigation ; but to those who will examine the evidence of facts upon which our conclusions rest, there can remain no more reasonable doubt of the former existence... | |
| 1848 - 874 Seiten
...stages of animal creation, when the first parents of the human race were called into existence." .... ' Persons to whom this subject may now be presented...admitted that they at first seem much more like the dreamt of fiction and romance, than the sober results of calm and deliberate investigation ; but to... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 Seiten
...found distributed among three distinct classes of the animal kingdom. " Persons," says Dr. Buckland, " to whom this subject may now be presented for the...investigation ; but to those who will examine the evidence of facts upon which our conclusions rest, there can remain no more reasonable doubt of the former existence... | |
| Henry Davenport Northrop - 1887 - 886 Seiten
...mechanical contrivances which are now found distributed among three distinct classes of the animal kingdom. Persons to whom this subject may now be presented...investigation ; but to those who will examine the evidence of facts upon which our conclusions rest, there can remain no more reasonable doubt ot the former existence... | |
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