The Life and Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick, Band 2University Press, 1890 - 640 Seiten |
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ADAM SEDGWICK affectionate afterwards Arenig Bala Beds Bala Series beautiful believe Bishop British Association called Camb Cambrian Cambridge Caradoc Caradoc Sandstone Carboniferous cheerful Christian classification Dean dear death delight Dent Devonian district early England fossils friends Geol Geological Society geologists give Greywacke groups happy heart Herschel honour hope Horderley hour John Sedgwick kind labours Lady Lake District lecture letter Limestone living Llandeilo Llandeilo Flags Lond look Lord Lower Silurian Magnesian Master meeting Miss Isabella Sedgwick morning Museum nature never niece nomenclature North Wales Norwich Paleozoic paper party passages Porphyry Prince Professor Sedgwick Queen R. I. Murchison Red Sandstone Royal sections shew Silurian System slates soon sorrow South Wales talk tell thought told Trinity College University Upper Wenlock Whewell wish Woodwardian words write wrote yesterday
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Seite 527 - THE body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life ! Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee ; and feed on him in thy heart by faith with thanksgiving.
Seite 82 - With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist they are centaurs, Though women all above: But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends; there's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption; — Fie, fie, fie! pah; pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination: there's money for the'e.
Seite 582 - A Catalogue of the Collection of Cambrian and Silurian Fossils contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge, by JW SALTER, FGS With a Preface by the Rev.
Seite 580 - Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Geological Society of London, on the 15th of February, 1856, by John William Hamilton, Esq., President of the Society.
Seite 416 - ... whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon...
Seite 84 - I also possess the first number of your monograph upon the fishes of the Old Red Sandstone. I trust the new numbers will follow the first in rapid succession. I love now and then to find a resting-place; and your works always give me one. The opinions of Geoffroy St. Hilaire and his dark school seem to be gaining some ground in England. I detest them, because I think them untrue. They shut out all argument from design and all notion of a Creative Providence...
Seite 319 - I beg to direct your attention to Africa : I know that in a few years I shall be cut off in that country, which is now open ; do not let it be shut again ! I go back to Africa to try to make an open path for commerce and Christianity ; do you carry out the work which I have begun. I LEAVE IT WITH YOU !" In a prefatory letter prefixed to the volume entitled Dr.
Seite 561 - Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th' ignorant More learned than the ears — waving thy head, Which often thus correcting thy stout heart, Now humble as the ripest mulberry That will not hold the handling...
Seite 30 - I'll mourn A faithless woman's broken vow. DESPONDENCY. OPPRESS'D with grief, oppress'd with care, A burden more than I can bear, I sit me down and sigh : O life ! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I...
Seite 543 - ... for the Bala group or Upper Cambrian of Sedgwick ; a concession which can hardly be defended, but which apparently found its way into use at a time when the yet unravelled perplexities of the Welsh rocks led Sedgwick himself to propose, for a time, the name of Cambro-Silurian for the Bala group. This want of agreement among geologists as to the nomenclature of the lower palaeozoic rocks, causes no little confusion to the learner.