| 1803 - 572 pages
...period, it may be safely concluded that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by any of the laws now existing, and that it is not indicated by any thing which we perceive.' i We have thus endeavoured to give a general idea of the celf. brated Theory of Dr. Hutcon, from the... | |
| John Playfair - 1822 - 554 pages
...sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system,...it is not indicated by any thing which we perceive. It would be desirable to trace the progress of an author's mind in the formation of a system where... | |
| John Playfait - 1822 - 550 pages
...sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system,...it is not indicated by any thing which we perceive. It would be desirable to trace the progress of an author's mind in the formation of a system where... | |
| John Playfait - 1822 - 668 pages
...sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system, at some determinate period ; but we may safely conclude, that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by any of the laws... | |
| 1831 - 448 pages
...sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system,...it is not indicated by any thing which we perceive. (2.) Hutton according to MacCuttoch. — The theory of Hutton is best known through the commentary... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 180 pages
...sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. //c may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system at...it is not indicated by any thing which we perceive. — Playfair's Life of Hutton, quoted in Lyell's Geology, vol ip 65. delivered, not as they truly are,... | |
| Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system, at some determinate period ; but we may safely conclude that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by any of the laws... | |
| 1837 - 608 pages
...Lyell, 'that the party feel' ing excited against the Huttonian doctrines, and the open disre' gard of candour and temper in the controversy, will hardly be ' credited by our readers, unless we recall to their recollection that ' the mind of the English public was at that... | |
| William Rhind - 1838 - 222 pages
...sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end — as he, no doubt, gave a beginning — to the present system at some determinate period ; but we may safely conclude, that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by any of the laws... | |
| 1846 - 436 pages
...sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system,...laws now existing, and that it is not indicated by anything which we perceive.' Such is the simple yet comprehensive system of Hutton, which, in most... | |
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