Life in the Primeval World: Founded on Meunier's "Les Animaux D'autrefois"T. Nelson and Sons, 1872 - 335 pages |
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ancient animal Aurignac aurochs belong birds bones BRITISH PALEONTOLOGY bronze Buckland canine carnivorous cave cave-bear cavern cavity Cephalaspis chalk Cuvier dentition deposit dinornis dinothere discovered discovery earth elephant Eocene epoch Equidae extinct fact feet fishes flint forests formation fossil fragments furnished Gaudry genera genus geological geologists gigantic giraffe globe glyptodon head herbivorous hipparions hippopotamus horns horse human Hyaenidae hyena ichthyosaurus inches inhabitants Irish elk island kitchen-midden Lake Lartet latter length less limbs living lower jaw machairodus mammals mammoth mastodon megathere mesopithecus mètres Miocene molars Museum naturalists nearly neck nummulites organization PACHYDERMATA Pachyderms palaeothere Palaeotherium PALEONTOLOGY period Pikermi plesiosaurus Pliocene Post-Tertiary PRE-HISTORIC present preserved primeval world Professor Owen pterodactyl reindeer remains remarkable reptiles resembled rhinoceros ridges rocks Ruminants Sandstone saurian says shells skeleton skull spelaea stone supposed teeth Tertiary strata thick tion tooth tusks upper Ursus vegetable vertebrae Viverridae wild
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Page 221 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 196 - But no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, " A thousand types are gone : I care for nothing, all shall go.
Page 237 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures...
Page 248 - Which strike ev'n eyes incurious ; but each moss, Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who framed This scale of beings ; holds a rank which lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue.
Page 174 - Meanwhile the tepid caves, and fens, and shores, Their brood as numerous hatch from the egg, that soon Bursting with kindly rupture forth disclosed Their callow young ; but feather'd soon and fledge, They summ'd their pens, and soaring the air sublime With clang despised the ground, under a cloud In prospect...
Page 237 - Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to nothing.
Page 196 - So careful of the type?" but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, " A thousand types are gone : I care for nothing, all shall go. " Thou makest thine appeal to me : I bring to life, I bring to death : The spirit does but mean the breath : I know no more.
Page 44 - ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality ! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of Time ! I saw the last of human mould, That shall Creation's death behold, As Adam saw her prime...
Page 262 - Let us, then, consider the works of God, and observe the operations of his hands. Let us take notice of, and admire his infinite wisdom and goodness in the formation of them. No creature in this sublunary world is capable of so doing beside man, and yet we are deficient herein.
Page 254 - Light as a flake of foam upon the wind, Keel upward from the deep emerged a shell, Shaped like the moon ere half her horn is filled ; Fraught writh young life, it righted as it rose, And moved at will along the yielding water. The native pilot of this little bark Put out a tier of oars on either side, Spread to the wafting breeze a twofold sail, And mounted up and glided down the billow In happy freedom, pleased to...