The Harmonies of Nature; Or, The Unity of CreationLongmans, Green, and Company, 1866 - 406 páginas |
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... scarlet , and purple over the evening sky , alone remains to bear witness to the vanished sun's magnificence - as after the death of a hero the memory of his deeds still lingers behind in many a glorious tradition , and spreads a 32 B.
... scarlet , and purple over the evening sky , alone remains to bear witness to the vanished sun's magnificence - as after the death of a hero the memory of his deeds still lingers behind in many a glorious tradition , and spreads a 32 B.
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... remains unchanged from age to age . This immutability in the midst of eternal disturbance , this constancy where so many changes are perpetually at work , can only be the result of a wonderful order , of a masterly balance between ...
... remains unchanged from age to age . This immutability in the midst of eternal disturbance , this constancy where so many changes are perpetually at work , can only be the result of a wonderful order , of a masterly balance between ...
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... remains of birds and quadrupeds which we find in the deposits of the primeval ocean prove that during an in- calculable series of ages the composition of the atmosphere cannot have differed in any notable degree from its present ...
... remains of birds and quadrupeds which we find in the deposits of the primeval ocean prove that during an in- calculable series of ages the composition of the atmosphere cannot have differed in any notable degree from its present ...
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... remains of extinct plants and animals which it harbours in its bosom as in a vast sarcophagus of the past ; we study its annals in the deposits of the primeval ocean , in the effects of its subterranean fires , in its volcanic eruptions ...
... remains of extinct plants and animals which it harbours in its bosom as in a vast sarcophagus of the past ; we study its annals in the deposits of the primeval ocean , in the effects of its subterranean fires , in its volcanic eruptions ...
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... remains , enable the geologist to recon- struct the magnificent epic of its history , as the learned deci- pherer of the hieroglyphics and cuneiform inscriptions of Egypt and Persepolis is able to exhume from the tomb of past ages the ...
... remains , enable the geologist to recon- struct the magnificent epic of its history , as the learned deci- pherer of the hieroglyphics and cuneiform inscriptions of Egypt and Persepolis is able to exhume from the tomb of past ages the ...
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