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Side 116
... Buffon ; that the eastern coasts of continents are enlarged by the perpetual revolution of the earth from west to east , which has the obvious tendency to con- glomerate the loose sands of the sea on the eastern coast ; while the tides ...
... Buffon ; that the eastern coasts of continents are enlarged by the perpetual revolution of the earth from west to east , which has the obvious tendency to con- glomerate the loose sands of the sea on the eastern coast ; while the tides ...
Side 117
... Buffon's theory accounts very handsomely for the enlargement of the eastern coast , it offers no kind of reason for any exten- sion of the western ; on the contrary , the very causes assigned , to supply the addition to the eastern ...
... Buffon's theory accounts very handsomely for the enlargement of the eastern coast , it offers no kind of reason for any exten- sion of the western ; on the contrary , the very causes assigned , to supply the addition to the eastern ...
Side 118
... Buffon's theory , therefore , however rational as to the eastern , becomes defective , as he presses it , in relation to the western coast ; unless , to accom- modate the theory , we suppose the total abrasion of some great mountain ...
... Buffon's theory , therefore , however rational as to the eastern , becomes defective , as he presses it , in relation to the western coast ; unless , to accom- modate the theory , we suppose the total abrasion of some great mountain ...
Side 124
... Buffon's theory either on account of the eloquent and beautiful manner in which it is explained ; nor because it has long had its just portion of admirers ; nor because there are other more mo- dern theories . While we are children , it ...
... Buffon's theory either on account of the eloquent and beautiful manner in which it is explained ; nor because it has long had its just portion of admirers ; nor because there are other more mo- dern theories . While we are children , it ...
Side 125
... Buffon's theory of the earth . The effect of allu- vion is so slow , that any one generation is almost unable to perceive the change wrought by it ; hence , many people , unable to sit down and reflect on the wonders which time can do ...
... Buffon's theory of the earth . The effect of allu- vion is so slow , that any one generation is almost unable to perceive the change wrought by it ; hence , many people , unable to sit down and reflect on the wonders which time can do ...
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Side 220 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Side 200 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Side 187 - Devotion alone should have stopped me, to join in the duties of the congregation; but I must confess that curiosity to hear the preacher of such a wilderness was not the least of my motives.
Side 220 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire, Hands that the rod of empire might have...
Side 194 - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood; (Loose his beard and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air...
Side 250 - Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion derived from the Literal Fulfilment of Prophecy, particularly as Illustrated by the History of the Jews, and the Discoveries of Recent Travellers.
Side 250 - Sir Edward Seaward's Narrative of his Shipwreck, and consequent Discovery of certain Islands in the Caribbean Sea.
Side 73 - ... objects of science and taste, so classed and arranged as to produce their finest effect. On one side, specimens of sculpture set out, in such order, as to exhibit at a coup...
Side 83 - ... we find her shivering at midnight on the winter banks of the Ohio and mingling her tears with the torrents that froze as they fell.