The Footprints of the Creator: Or, The Asterolepis of StromnessHurst, 1899 - 313 Seiten |
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Agassiz ages ancient animals appear assertors Asterolepis bearing belief bones Brachiopods brain Carboniferous cartilaginous centre cerebral character Coccosteus Coelacanth coprolites cranial buckler cranium creation creature Cuvier degradation deposits dermal detected development hypothesis Diplopterus Dipterus division dog-fish dynasty earth evidence exhibit existence fact feet fins flora formation fossil fucoids Ganoids genera genus geological geologist head higher Holoptychius human hyoid plate ichthyic ichthyolites inches least lignite limbs Limestone Lower Old Red mammals marine ment Miller miracle molluscs nature occipital occur Oken Old Red Sandstone organization osseous fishes Osteolepis peculiar period plants Port Jackson Shark portion present principle Professor Owen Pterichthys quadruped race rays regarding represented reptiles resemblance rocks Roderick Murchison scale shagreen Sharks Silurian System skeleton skull species specimens Spinax spines surface tail teeth theory Thurso tion upper vegetation vertebral vertebral column vertebrata Vestiges
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Seite 324 - New heavens, new earth, ages of endless date Founded in righteousness, and peace, and love, To bring forth fruits, joy and eternal bliss.
Seite 250 - The place approaching where th' attraction lies; When next appear'da dam — so call the place — Where lies a road confined in narrow space; A work of labour, for on either side Is level fen, a prospect wild and wide, With dikes on either hand by ocean's self supplied: Far on the right the distant sea is seen, And salt the springs that feed the marsh between; Beneath an ancient bridge, the...
Seite 294 - The head was of fine gold, the breast and arms of silver, the belly and thighs of brass...
Seite xviii - I went to enjoy my half-hour alone on a mossy knoll in the neighbouring wood, which commands through the trees a wide prospect of the bay and the opposite shore. There was not a wrinkle on the water, nor a cloud in the sky, and the branches were as moveless in the calm as if they had been traced on canvas. From a wooded promontory that stretched half-way across the frith there ascended a thin column of smoke.
Seite xxiv - His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral...
Seite 34 - the creation proper, and the propagation that is sequent thereupon, — or the generatio originaria et secundaria. Consequently, no organism has been created larger than an infusorial point. No organism is, nor ever has one been, created, which is not microscopic. Whatever is larger, has not been created, but developed.
Seite 251 - The few dull flowers that o'er the place are spread Partake the nature of their fenny bed; Here on its wiry stem, in rigid bloom, Grows the salt lavender that lacks perfume ; Here the dwarf sallows creep, the septfoil harsh, And the soft slimy mallow of the marsh; Low on the ear the distant billows sound, And just in view appears their stony bound...
Seite 267 - Of treeship — first a seedling hid in grass ; Then twig ; then sapling ; and, as century rolled Slow after century, a giant bulk Of girth enormous, with moss-cushioned root Upheaved above the soil, and sides embossed With prominent wens globose, — till at the last The rottenness, which Time is charged to inflict On other mighty ones, found also thee.
Seite 324 - In glory of the Father, to dissolve Satan with his perverted World, then raise From the conflagrant mass, purg'd and refin'd, New Heav'ns, new Earth, Ages of endless date Founded in righteousness and peace and love, To bring forth fruits Joy and eternal Bliss.
Seite 311 - Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all "That system only, but the whole must fall.