 | 1830 - 718 pages
...circumstance, "That the time is not yet cume for a general system of geology, but that all must be content for many years to be exclusively engaged in furnishing materials for future generalizations." — p. 72. We will, however, do " foolish friends" the justice to own that Italy and Asia being both... | |
 | 1834 - 402 pages
...by acting up to their principles with consistency, he says, that they have in a few years disarmed prejudice, and rescued the science from the imputation of being a dangerous or at least a visionary pursuit." French naturalists, have also of late years, by the application of the... | |
 | Madras literary society - 1834 - 832 pages
...by acting up to their principles with consistency, he says, that they have in a few years disarmed prejudice, and rescued the science from the imputation of being a dangerous or at least a visionary pursuit." French naturalists, have also of late years, by the application of the... | |
 | John M. Moffatt - 1835 - 854 pages
...maxim, that the time was not yet come for a general system of geology, but that all must be content for many years to be exclusively engaged in furnishing...a dangerous, or at best but a visionary pursuit."* One train of research which was now pursued with great ardour, and which contributed much to the improvement... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1835 - 440 pages
...maxim that the time was not yet come for a general system of geology, but that all must be content for many years to be exclusively engaged in furnishing...science from the imputation of being a dangerous, oral best but a visionary pursuit. A distinguished modern writer has with truth remarked, that the... | |
 | 1843 - 534 pages
...maxim that the time was not yet come for a general system of geology, but that all must be content for many years to be exclusively engaged in furnishing...prejudice, and rescued the science from the imputation of heing a dangerous, or at hest hut a visionary pursuit." — iyell, vol. i., p. 106. This was quite... | |
 | John Tudor - 1847 - 468 pages
...maxim that the time was not yet come for a general system of geology, but that all must be content for many years to be exclusively engaged in furnishing...dangerous, or at best but . a visionary pursuit." — (Lyell, vol. i., p. 106.) This was quite true — for a while they had • disarmed prejudice by... | |
 | John Tudor - 1847 - 434 pages
...maxim that the time was not yet come for a general system of geology, but that all must be content for many years to be exclusively engaged in furnishing...a dangerous, or at best but .a visionary pursuit." — (Lyell, vol. i., p. 106.) This was quite true — for a while they had .disarmed prejudice by this... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1852 - 306 pages
...maxim, that the time was not yet come for a general system of geology, but that all must be content, for many years, to be exclusively engaged in furnishing...a dangerous, or at best but a visionary pursuit." One train of research which was now pursued with great ardor, and which contributed much to the improvement... | |
 | John Weale - 1854 - 1004 pages
...maxim that the time was not yet come for a general system of geology; but that all must be content for many years to be exclusively engaged in furnishing...a dangerous, or at best but a visionary pursuit." meeting was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, to take this proposal into consideration, when it was decided... | |
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To multiply and record observations, and patiently to await the result at some future period, was the object proposed by them ; and it was their favourite maxim that the time was not yet come for a general system of geology, but that all must be content... 
