 If, in the pride of our present strength, we were disposed to forget our origin, our very speech bewrays us : for we use the language which he taught us in the infancy of our science. If we, by our united efforts, are chiselling the ornaments and slowly...  The Farmer's Magazine - Seite 231859Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1839 - 654 Seiten
...our united efforts, are chiselling the ornaments, and slowly raising up the pinnacles of one of the temples of nature, it was he who gave the plan, and laid the foundation, and erected a portion of the solid walls, by the unassisted labour of his hands." In 1835... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1839 - 654 Seiten
...our united efforts, are chiselling the ornaments, and slowly raising up the pinnacles of one of the temples of nature, it was he who gave the plan, and laid the foundation, and erected' a portion of the solid walls, by the unassisted labour of his hands." In 1835... | |
 | 1846 - 576 Seiten
...our united efforts, are chiselling the ornaments, and slowly raising up the pinnacles, of one of the temples of nature, it was he who gave the plan, and...the solid -walls, by the unassisted labour of his own hands." The medal, completed in 1832, was delivered to Smith at Oxford, in the presence of the... | |
 | Peter Martin Duncan - 1882 - 376 Seiten
...our united efforts, are chiselling the ornaments and slowly raising up the pinnacles of one of the temples of nature, it was he who gave the plan, and...walls by the unassisted labour of his hands. " The men who have led the way in useful discoveries, have ever held the first place of honour in the estimation... | |
 | John Willis Clark, Thomas McKenny Hughes - 1890 - 618 Seiten
...our united efforts, are chiseling the ornaments, and slowly raising up the pinnacles of one of the temples of Nature, it was he who gave the plan, and...of the solid walls, by the unassisted labour of his hands1." In the evening of the same day Sedgwick delivered his own address as President. As in that... | |
 | John Edward Marr - 1898 - 324 Seiten
...our united efforts, are chiselling the ornaments and slowly raising up the pinnacles of one of the temples of nature, it was he who gave the plan, and...of the solid walls by the unassisted labour of his hands."1 1 The reader may consult an interesting paper by Professor Judd, on "William Smith's Manuscript... | |
 | Horace Bolingbroke Woodward - 1907 - 452 Seiten
...the ornaments, and slowly raising up the pinnacles of one of the temples of Nature, it was he that gave the plan, and laid the foundations, and erected...solid walls, by the unassisted labour of his hands. . . . I think it a high privilege to fill this Chair, on an occasion when we are met not coldly to... | |
 | 1927 - 482 Seiten
...the ornaments, and slowly raising up the pinnacles of one of the temples of Nature, it was he that gave the plan, and laid the foundations, and erected a portion of the solid walls, by the unassisted labor of his hands." At the conclusion of Doctor Bather's able address, a vote of thanks to the speaker... | |
 | Leslie Alan Horvitz - 2001 - 356 Seiten
...chiseling the ornaments and slowly raising up the pinnacles of one of the temples of nature, it was he that gave the plan, and laid the foundations, and erected...solid walls, by the unassisted labour of his hands. One Too Many Catastrophes By the late 1820s, Europe's geology had been carefully surveyed and mapped,... | |
 | . - 1857 - 606 Seiten
...discoverer. In 1831 the Council of the Geological Society awarded to him the first medal, •truck with part of the proceeds of a fund bequeathed to...meeting of the British Association, at Oxford. At the game time Smith was gratified by the further announcement that a pension of £100 a-year had been asligned... | |
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