 | 1864 - 578 pages
...indulged in, the imagination is apt to take alarm at the immensity of the time required to interrupt the monuments of these ages, all referable to the...related of a great Irish orator of our day that when ho was about to contribute somewhat parsimoniously towards a public charity he was persuaded by a friend... | |
 | 1864 - 868 pages
...post-glncial periods are indulged in, the imagination is apt to take alarm at the immensity of the time required to interpret the monuments of these ages,...would otherwise be indispensable, a disposition is shewn by many to magnify the rate of change in pre-historic times, by investing the causes which have... | |
 | 1864 - 964 pages
...post-glacial periods are indulged in, the imagination is apt to take alarm tit the immensity of the time required to interpret the monuments of these ages,...to the era of existing species. In order to abridge We number of centuries which would otherwise be indispensable, a disposition is shewn by many to magnify... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1865 - 816 pages
...postglacial periods are indulged in, the imagination is apt to take alarm at the immensity of the time required to interpret the monuments of these ages,...excessive energy. It is related of a great Irish orator of onr day, that when he was about to contribute somewhat parsimoniously towards a public charity, ho... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1865 - 560 pages
...indulged in," says Sir C. Lyell,* " the imagination is apt to take alarm at the immensity of the time required to interpret the monuments of these ages,...investing the causes which have modified the animate and the inanimate world with extraordinary and excessive energy. .... We of the living generation, when... | |
 | 1872 - 806 pages
...indulged in," says Sir C. Lyell, " the imagination is apt to take alarm at the immensity of the time required to interpret the monuments of these ages,...investing the causes which have modified the animate and the inanimate world with extraordinary and excessive energy. . . . We of the living generation, when... | |
 | 1872 - 798 pages
...indulged in," says Sir C. Lyell, " the imagination is apt to take alarm at the immensity of the time required to interpret the monuments of these ages,...investing the causes which have modified the animate and the inanimate world with extraordinary and excessive energy. . . . "We of the living generation, when... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1872 - 696 pages
...Lyell*, "the imagination is apt to take alarm at the immensity of the time required to interpret tho monuments of these ages, all referable to the era...investing the causes which have modified the animate and the inanimate world with extraordinary and excessive energy. ...... We of the living generation, when... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1878 - 704 pages
...indulged in," says Sir C. Lyell,* " the imagination is apt to take alarm at the immensity of the time required to interpret the monuments of these ages, all referable to the era of existmg species. In order to abridge the number of centuries which would otherwise be indispensable,... | |
 | 1897 - 136 pages
...post-glacial periods are indulged in, the imagination is apt to take alarm at the immensity of the time required to interpret the monuments of these ages,...and excessive energy. It is related of a great Irish orntor of our day that when he was about to contribute somewhat parsimoniously toward a public charity... | |
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When speculations on the long series of events which occurred in the glacial and post-glacial periods are indulged in, the imagination is apt to take alarm at the immensity of the time required to interpret the monuments of these ages, all referable to... 
