 | North American review - 1851 - 568 pages
...shoreless ocean tumble round the globe.' Was it with reference to this principle so recently recognized, that we are so expressly told in the Apocalypse respecting...by the speculation, I lag in my geological survey." pp. 226-228. The third and most remarkable of Mr. Miller's works, " Foot Prints of the Creator," was... | |
 | Hugh Miller - England - 1847 - 454 pages
...untiring ; and to a state in which there shall be no vicissitude and no change,—in which the earthquake shall not heave from beneath, nor the mountains wear down and the continents melt away,—it seems inevitably necessary that there should be " no more sea." But, carried away by the... | |
 | Protestantism - 1848 - 642 pages
...untiring; and to a state in which there shall be ч« vicissitude and no change — in which the earthquake p o = ˴0 S7 ۦ N Q u2= Sc;2 _ X # ٶ p u nbm ,j Q i ݻd 5 ¶* •• • 4" inevitably necessary that there should be " no more sea."— llayk 3/iller. A LOOK INTO... | |
 | Hugh Miller - England - 1851 - 468 pages
...principle, so recently recognized, that we are so expressly told in the Apocalypse respecting the tenovated earth, in which the state of things shall be fixed...by the speculation, I lag in my geological survey. CHAPTER XII. Geological Coloring of the Landscape. — Close Proiimity in this Neighborhood of the... | |
 | Hugh Miller - England - 1851 - 438 pages
...revelation as the mere hieroglyphic — the pictured shape — of some analogous moral truth ? " Eeasoning from what we know," — and what else remains to us...by the speculation, I lag in my geological survey. CHAPTEK XII. Geological Coloring of the Landscape. — Close Proximity in this Neighborhood of the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1851 - 566 pages
...no more sea ' ? or are we to regard the revelation as the mere hieroglyphic, the pictured shape,of some analogous moral truth ? ' Reasoning from what...there should be ' no more sea.' " But, carried away by ihe speculation, I lag in my geological survey." pp. 226-228. The third and most remarkable of Mr.... | |
 | Science - 1852 - 386 pages
...revelation as the mere hieroglyphic, the pictured shape, of some analogous moral truth 1 ' Keasoning from what we know,' — and what else remains to us...1. On the Structure of Ice. 2. Rapid Evaporation of Snon> and Ice. 3. Dryness of Arctic Air. 1 . Structure of Ice. With regard to the progress of the seasons,... | |
 | J H. Aitken - Elocution - 1853 - 378 pages
...; and to a state in which there shall be no vicissitude and no change, — in which the earthquake shall not heave from beneath, nor the mountains wear...inevitably necessary that there should be " no more sea." — HUGH MILLER. HYMN TO THE SETTING SUN. Slow, slow, mighty wanderer, sink to thy rest, Thy course... | |
 | Hugh Miller - England - 1856 - 454 pages
...principle, so recently recognized, that we are so expressly told in the Apocalypse respecting the tenovated earth, in which the state of things shall be fixed...mountains wear down and the continents melt away,— it «eems inevitably necessary that there should be " no more sea." But, carried away by the speculation,... | |
 | Hugh Miller - England - 1857 - 448 pages
...principle, so recently recognized, that we are so expressly told in the Apocalypse respecting the tenovated earth, in which the state of things shall be fixed...by the speculation, I lag in my geological survey. CHAPTER XII. Geological Coloring of the Landscape. — Close Proximity in this Neighborhood of the... | |
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Reasoning from what we know,' — and what else remains to us? — an earth without a sea would be an earth without rain, without vegetation, without life, a dead and doleful planet of waste places, such as the telescope reveals to us in the moon. And... 
