Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, Band 11Geologists' Association, London., 1891 |
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 156 - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
Seite 135 - Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of Desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful?
Seite xci - ... hill. This was in fact the case; for the gush of mud carried before it through the first two or three hundred yards of its course, a part of the breast-work ; which, though low, was yet several feet in perpendicular height; but it soon deposited this solid mass, and became a heavy fluid. One house after another, it spread round, filled, and crushed into ruin ; just giving time to the terrified inhabitants to escape.
Seite 157 - Air-castle — and they have a' their different turns, and some can clink verses, wi' their tale, as weel as Rob Burns or Allan Ramsay — and some rin up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stanes to pieces wi...
Seite 153 - God ! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times...
Seite 66 - ... considered as unsafe and fantastic by his contemporaries as well as by later astronomers, Sir David Brewster remarks very truly, " that, as an instrument of research, the influence of imagination has been much overlooked by those who have ventured to give laws to philosophy.
Seite 47 - He concluded his elaborate essay on this subject with these words : " This single result affords, I conceive, a strong presumption in favour of the solution which Dr. Hutton has advanced of all the geological phenomena; for the truth of the most doubtful principle which he has assumed has thus been established by direct experiment.
Seite 157 - He who with pocket-hammer smites the edge Of luckless rock or prominent stone, disguised In weather-stains or crusted o'er by Nature With her first growths, detaching by the stroke A chip or splinter — to resolve his doubts ; And, with that ready answer satisfied, The substance classes by some barbarous name, And hurries on...
Seite xci - On the 1 6th of November, 1771, in a dark tempestuous night, the inhabitants of the plain were alarmed with a dreadful crash, which they could in no way account for. Many of them were then abroad in the fields, watching their cattle; lest the Esk, which was rising violently in the storm, would carry them off.
Seite lxxxvi - Here chicks in eggs for breakfast sprawl, Here godless boys God's glories squall, Here Scotchmen's heads do guard the wall, But Corby's walks atone for all.