 | William Rhind - 1838 - 230 pages
...thinking, that these changes take place according to a certain system, and within a certain period. As time never fails, and the universe is eternal,...continents, but every thing changes in the course of time." Among the Romans geology made little progress, and scarcely an original investigation is to be found... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...the changes that transpire in a more gradual manner, led Aristotle to remark, that the " same tracts of the earth are not some always sea, and others always...continents, but every thing changes in the course of time." Violent tempests, without any submarine convulsions, have frequently brought large portions of the... | |
 | 1857 - 528 pages
...of all other rivers ; they spring up £::''. ':iey p'.-r'sii. aa'J tho sea also continually deserts and invades others.— ' The same tracts therefore...some always sea, and others always Continents, but everything changes in the course of time." Strabo also, was of the same opinion, and says — " it... | |
 | F. G. S. - 1858 - 116 pages
...spring up, and they perish ; and the sea also continually deserts some lands, and some land invades. The same tracts, therefore, of the earth are not, some always sea and others always continents (as many imagine), but everything changes in the course of ages." It was not till the earlier part... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...the changes that transpire in a more gradual manner, led Aristotle to remark, that the " same tracts of the earth are not some always sea, and others always...continents, but every thing changes in the course of time." Violent tempests, without any submarine convulsions, have frequently brought large portions of the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1865 - 880 pages
...rivers ; they spring up, and they perish ; and the sea also continually deserts some lands and inTades others. The same tracts, therefore, of the earth are...only derived from preceding nations, but had also, in sojne slight degree, deduced from their own observations, the theory of periodical revolutions in the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1867 - 746 pages
...displayed by Aristotle, in his various works, with the destroying and rerfovating powers of Nature, the introductory and concluding passages of the twelfth...some always sea, and others always continents, but everything changes in the course of time.' It seems, then, that the Greeks had not only derived from... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1868 - 876 pages
...rivers ; they spring up, and they perish ; and the sea also continually deserts some lands and inYades others. The same tracts, therefore, of the earth are...seems, then, that the Greeks had not only derived from preced- s~ ing nations, but had also, in some slight degree, deduced from their own observations, the... | |
 | Samuel Hutchins - 1868 - 120 pages
...were once dry, and there is a limit to their operations; but there is none to time. So also of the other rivers; they spring up and they perish ; and...earth, are not, some always sea, and others always continent; but everything changes in the course of time." In the third chapter of -2 Peter are these... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1872 - 714 pages
...those parts where * Meteor, lib. i. cap. 12. } Lib. ii. cap. 14, 15, and 16. t De Die Nat. § Ibid. it was land, and again it becomes land where it was...some always sea, and others always continents, but everything changes in the course of time.' It seems, then, that the Greeks had not only derived from... | |
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As time never fails, and the universe is eternal, neither the Tanais, nor the Nile, can have flowed for ever. The places where they rise were once dry, and there is a limit to their operations, but there is none to time. So also of all other rivers, they... 
