The Old Red Sandstone, Or, New Walks in an Old FieldJohn Johnstone, 1842 - 311 Seiten |
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... pass- ing uneasiness occasioned by a few gloomy anticipa- tions , the portion of my life which had already gone . by had been happy beyond the common lot . I had been a wanderer among rocks and woods , - -a reader of curious books when ...
... pass- ing uneasiness occasioned by a few gloomy anticipa- tions , the portion of my life which had already gone . by had been happy beyond the common lot . I had been a wanderer among rocks and woods , - -a reader of curious books when ...
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... pass through it on the flowers that were drooping over the edge . I returned to the quarry , convinced that a very ex- quisite pleasure may be a very cheap one , and that the busiest employments may afford leisure enough to enjoy it ...
... pass through it on the flowers that were drooping over the edge . I returned to the quarry , convinced that a very ex- quisite pleasure may be a very cheap one , and that the busiest employments may afford leisure enough to enjoy it ...
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... pass their days in labour , has not in the least inclined me to scepticism . My curiosity once fully awakened , remained awake , and my opportunities of gratifying it have been toler- ably ample . I have been an explorer of caves and ...
... pass their days in labour , has not in the least inclined me to scepticism . My curiosity once fully awakened , remained awake , and my opportunities of gratifying it have been toler- ably ample . I have been an explorer of caves and ...
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... pass from the Lower to the Up- per Lias , in another from the Inferior to the Great Oolite , and onward to the Oxford Clay and the Coral Rag . We may explore in a third locality beds iden- tical in their organisms with the Wealden of ...
... pass from the Lower to the Up- per Lias , in another from the Inferior to the Great Oolite , and onward to the Oxford Clay and the Coral Rag . We may explore in a third locality beds iden- tical in their organisms with the Wealden of ...
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... pass over the whole geological scale , even when restricted to Scotland , from the Grauwacke of the Lammermuirs , to the Wealden of Moray or the Chalk - flints of Banffshire and Aberdeen , and this , too , with opportunities of ...
... pass over the whole geological scale , even when restricted to Scotland , from the Grauwacke of the Lammermuirs , to the Wealden of Moray or the Chalk - flints of Banffshire and Aberdeen , and this , too , with opportunities of ...
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abundance acquainted Agassiz ancient animal appearance Balruddery body bone bony Caithness carboniferous cartilaginous Cephalaspis character Cheiracanthus Coal Measures coast Coccosteus colour composed conglomerate Cornstone cotemporaries covered creature Cromarty crustacean curious deposit depth described diluvium Dipterus edge Edinburgh enamelled entire existing feet fins fish Forfarshire fossils fragments furnished geological geologist gneiss granitic gray hills Holoptychius huge hundred ichthy ichthyolite beds inch jaws Lias lime limestone localities Lower Old Red marked mass middle minute Moray Moray Frith Murchison nigh nodules northern occur ocean Old Red Sand Old Red Sandstone Oolite organisms osseous Osteolepis pebbles peculiar period plates portion precipices present Pterichthys quarry rays reader remains reptiles resembling ridge rock scales schists Scotland seems shells shore side Silurian skeleton species specimens spines stone strata stratified clay stratum surface Sutor tail teeth thick thickly tion trilobite tubercules vast vegetable vertebral column vertebrated
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Seite 90 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures...
Seite 260 - Of fish, that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the...
Seite 33 - ... a more conclusive proof that the bank which had enclosed them so long could not have been created on the rock on which it rested. No workman ever manufactures a half-worn article, and the stones were all half-worn! And if not the bank, why then the sandstone underneath? I was lost in conjecture, and found I had food enough for thought that evening, without once thinking of the unhappiness of a life of labour.
Seite 90 - Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing — On superior...
Seite 216 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present — advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Seite 28 - ... employments — to work in a quarry. Bating the passing uneasiness occasioned by a few gloomy anticipations, the portion of my life which had already gone by had been happy beyond the common lot. I had been a wanderer among rocks and woods — a reader of curious books when I could get them — a gleaner of old traditionary stories; and now I was going to exchange all my day-dreams, and all my amusements, for the kind of life in which men toil every day that they may be enabled to eat, and eat...
Seite 285 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar Comes down upon the waters, all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse ; And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Seite 30 - ... fields; but the sun rose in a clear atmosphere, and the day mellowed, as it advanced, into one of those delightful days of early spring, which give so pleasing an earnest of whatever is mild and genial in the better half of the year. All the workmen rested at midday, and I went to enjoy my half-hour alone on a mossy knoll in the neighboring wood, which commands through the trees a wide prospect of the bay and the opposite shore.
Seite 26 - ... perhaps it is too true that, with some good, you have received much evil at their hands. It must be confessed they have hitherto been doing comparatively little for you, and a great deal for themselves. But upper and lower classes there must be, so long as the world lasts ; and there is only one way in which your jealousy of them can be well directed. Do not let them get ahead of you in intelligence. It would be alike unwise and unjust to attempt casting them down to your own level...
Seite 29 - ... and simple and rude as I had been accustomed to regard these implements, I found I had much to learn in the way of using them. They all proved inefficient, however, and the workmen had to bore into one of the inferior strata, and employ gunpowder. The process was new to me, and I deemed it a highly amusing one : it had the merit, too, of being attended with some such degree of danger as a boating or rock excursion, and had thus an interest independent of its novelty.