 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1832 - 634 pages
...are the connexions brought to light, when we carry back our researches into the history of nature. The form of a coast, the configuration of the interior...traced to the former prevalence of earthquakes and volcanos, in regions which have long been undisturbed. To these remote convulsions the present fertility... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1835 - 440 pages
...our planet. By these researches into the state of the earth and its inhabitants at former periods, we acquire a more perfect knowledge of its present...now governing its animate and inanimate productions. When we study history, we obtain a more profound insight into human nature, by instituting a comparison... | |
 | Lewis Feuchtwanger - 1859 - 512 pages
...our planet. By these researches into the state of the earth and its inhabitants at former periods, we acquire a more perfect knowledge of its present...now governing its animate and inanimate productions. When we study history, we obtain a more profound insight into human nature, by instituting a comparison... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1872 - 714 pages
...our planet. By these researches into the state of the earth and its inhabitants at former periods, we acquire a more perfect knowledge of its present condition, and more comprehensive views eoncerning the laws now governing its animate and inanimate productions. When we study history, we... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 856 pages
...are the connections brought to light, when we carry back our researches into the history of nature. The form of a coast, the configuration of the interior of a country, thcexistence and extent or lakes, valley*, and mountains can often l)e traced to the former prevalence... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1896 - 670 pages
...of our planet. By these researches into the state of the earth and its inhabitants at former periods we acquire a more perfect knowledge of its present...now governing its animate and inanimate productions. When we study history, we obtain a more profound insight into human nature, by instituting a comparison... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1911 - 750 pages
...of our planet. By these researches into the state of the earth and its inhabitants at former periods we acquire a more perfect knowledge of its present condition, and more comprehensive vie^vs concerning the laws now governing its animate and inanimate productions. When we study history,... | |
 | J.D. North, J.J. Roche - 1985 - 484 pages
...our planet. By these researches into the state of the earth and its inhabitants at former periods, we acquire a more perfect knowledge of its present...now governing its animate and inanimate productions . . . Geology is as intimately related to almost all the physical sciences, as is history to the moral.... | |
 | Mary C. Rabbitt - 1979 - 786 pages
...our planet. By these researches into the state of the earth and its inhabitants at former periods, we acquire a more perfect knowledge of its present...concerning the laws now governing its animate and inanimate ptoductions. When we study history, we obtain a more ptofound insight into human nature, by instituting... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1990 - 594 pages
...these researches into the state of the earth and its inhabitants at former periods, we acquire amore perfect knowledge of its present condition, and more...now governing its animate and inanimate productions. When we study history, we obtain a more profound insight into human nature, by instituting a comparison... | |
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By these researches into the state of the earth and its inhabitants at former periods, we acquire a more perfect knowledge of its present condition, and more comprehensive views concerning the laws now governing its animate and inanimate productions.... 
