| 1839 - Страниц: 658
...victorious ; for here another power, as antagonist to the former, takes part in the contest. The organic forces separate the atoms of carbonate of lime one...tear up its thousand huge fragments; yet what will this tell against the accumulated labours of myriads of architects at work night and day, month after... | |
| sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1840 - Страниц: 504
...victorious, for here another power, as antagonist to the former, takes part in the contest. The organic forces separate the atoms of carbonate of lime one...breakers, and unite them into a symmetrical structure; myriads of architects are at work night and day, month after month, and we see their soft and gelatinous... | |
| 1845 - Страниц: 558
...another power, as antagonist to the former, takes part in the contest. The organic forces (coral animals) separate the atoms of carbonate of lime, one by one...symmetrical structure. Let the hurricane tear up its thousands of huge fragments, yet what will this tell against the accumulated labour of myriads of architects... | |
| William Benjamin Carpenter - 1845 - Страниц: 612
...another power, as antagonist to the former, takes part in the contest. The organic forces separate tho atoms of carbonate of lime one by one from the foaming breakers, and rear them up into a symmetrical structure. Let the hurricane tear up its thousand huge fragments; yet... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1846 - Страниц: 716
...and are victorious; for here another power, as an antagonist, takes part in the contest. The organic forces separate the atoms of carbonate of lime, one...and unite them into a symmetrical structure. Let the and the animal always appears languishing and sickly." hurricane tear up its thousand huge fragments... | |
| Robert Hermann Schomburgk - 1848 - Страниц: 780
...construction those numerous islands which are scattered for thousands of miles over the space of the ocean1. "Let the hurricane tear up its thousand huge fragments,...myriads of architects at work night and day, month after month9 ? " The beauty and regular structure of some species of Astraea are very remarkable ; they are... | |
| William Benjamin Carpenter - 1848 - Страниц: 656
...what will thus tell against the accumulated labour of myriads of architects at work day and night, month after month. Thus do we see the soft and gelatinous body of a polypus, through the ageney of the vital laws, conquering the great mechanical power of the waves of an ocean, which neither... | |
| William Benjamin Carpenter - 1848 - Страниц: 606
...victorious; for here another power, as antagonist to the former, takes part in the contest. The organic forces separate the atoms of carbonate of lime one by one from the foaming breakers, and rear them up into a symmetrical structure. Let the hurricane tear up its thousand huge fragments ;... | |
| Robert Ellis (F.L.S.) - 1850 - Страниц: 548
...the contest. The organic forces separate the atoms of carbonate of lime, one by * Journal, p. 465. one, from the foaming breakers, and unite them into...? Thus do we see the soft and gelatinous body of a polyp, through the agency of the vital laws, conquering the great mechanical power of the waves of... | |
| 1850 - Страниц: 896
...works of nature"' would have crumbled into nothing before the relentless fury of a disturbed ocean '? ''Let the hurricane tear up its thousand huge fragments, yet what will that tell against the accumulated labor of myriads of architects at work day and night, month after month?'' for here organic force is... | |
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