 | 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 - 964 pages
...order to abridge We number of centuries which would otherwise be indispensable, a disposition is shewn by many to magnify the rate of change in pre-historic...the animate and inanimate world with extraordinary J^lexcessive energy. It is related of a great Irish orator of our day that when he w«s about to contribute... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1865 - 816 pages
...Moscow. No one will deny that this elephant had lain for several thousand years in its icy envelope ; and if it had been left undisturbed, and the cold...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... | |
 | 1865 - 372 pages
...had gone on increasing, (or myriads of centuries, we might reasonably expect that the frozen ilesh might continue undecayed until a second glacial period...It is related of a great Irish orator of our day, tliat when he was about to contribute somewhat parsimoniously towards a public charity, he was persuaded... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1865 - 560 pages
...events which occurred in the glacial and post-glacial periods are indulged in," says Sir C. Lyell,* " the imagination is apt to take alarm at the immensity...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
...events which occurred in the glacial and post-glacial periods are indulged in," says Sir C. Lyell, " the imagination is apt to take alarm at the immensity...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
...events which occurred in the glacial and post-glacial periods are indulged in," says Sir C. Lyell, " the imagination is apt to take alarm at the immensity...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
...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...investing the causes which have modified the animate and the inanimate world with extraordinary and excessive energy. We of the living generation, when called... | |
 | 1897 - 136 pages
...struck Quoted so true a note that I am tempted to reproduce the paragraph to which I refer : — ' ' When speculations on the long series of events which...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... 
