 I look at the natural geological record, as a history of the world imperfectly kept, and written in a changing dialect ; of this history we possess the last volume alone, relating only to two or three countries. Of this volume, only here and there a short...  Physiology: preliminary course lectures - Стр. 62авторы: James Thomas Whittaker - 1879 - Страниц: 288Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 1860 - Страниц: 600
...written in a changing dialect ; of this history we possess the ' last volume alone, relating to only two or three countries^. Of ' this volume only here and there a short chapter has been pre' served : and of each page only here and there a few lines. Each 1 word of the slowly changing... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1861 - Страниц: 470
...the world imperfectly kept, and written in a changing dialect ; of this history we possess the last volume alone, relating only to two or three countries....lines. Each word of the slowly changing language, in which the history is supposed to be written, being more or less different in the interrupted succession... | |
 | John Nash Griffin - 1862 - Страниц: 354
...the last volume alone, relating only to two or three centuries. Of this volume only here and there a chapter has been preserved, and of each page only...few lines. Each word of the slowly changing language in which the history is supposed to be written, being more or less different in the interrupted succession... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1864 - Страниц: 472
...the world imperfectly kept, and written in a changing dialect ; of this history we possess the last volume alone, relating only to two or three countries....lines. Each word of the slowly changing language, in which the history is supposed to be written, being more or less different in the interrupted succession... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1866 - Страниц: 668
...the world imperfectly kept, and written in a changing dialect ; of this history we possess the last volume alone, relating only to two or three countries....only here and there a few lines. Each word of the slowlychanging language being more or less different in the successive chapters, may represent the... | |
 | Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club - 1867 - Страниц: 282
...the world imperfectly kept and written in a changing dialect ; of this history we possess the last volume alone, relating only to two or three countries....and of each page, only here and there a few lines." These words show us what work Geology has still to do ; to recover another chapter or page, or even... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - Страниц: 406
...imperfectly kept, and written in a changing dialect. Of this history we possess the last volume only, relating only to two or three countries. Of this volume...and of each page only here and there a few lines. On this view the difficulties above discussed are greatly diminished, or even disappear (337). So then,... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - Страниц: 598
...imperfectly kept, and written in a changing dialect. Of this history we possess the last volume only, relating only to two or three countries. Of this volume...and of each page only here and there a few lines. On this view the difficulties above discussed are greatly diminished, or even disappear (337). So then,... | |
 | David Thomas Ansted - 1867 - Страниц: 522
...this history we possess the' last volume only, relating to two or three countries. Of this volume but here and there a short chapter has been preserved,...lines. Each word of the slowly changing language, in which the history is supposed to be written, being more or less different in the interrupted succession... | |
 | 1877 - Страниц: 786
...the -world imperfectly, kept and written in a changing dialect ; of this history we possess the last volume alone, relating only to two or three countries....few lines. Each word of the slowly changing language in which the history is written, being more or less different in the successive chapters, may represent... | |
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