...geometer were measured the regions of space, and the relative distances of the heavenly bodies—by the geologist myriads of ages were reckoned, not by...arithmetical computation, but by a train of physical events—a succession of phenomena in the animate and inanimate worlds—signs which convey to our...

...geometer were measured the regions of space, and the relative distances of the heavenly bodies—by the geologist myriads of ages were reckoned, not by...succession of phenomena in the animate and inanimate worlds—signs which convey to our minds more definite ideas than figures can do, of the immensity...

...change, and was still the subject of slow but never-ending fluctuations. The discovery of other systems in the boundless regions of space was the triumph...the animate and inanimate worlds • — signs which eonvey to our minds more definite ideas than figures can do of the immensity of time. • ' n-' ' --»'>"'il'!''...

...successive eras adorned with different hills and valleys, lakes and seas, and peopled with new inhahitants, was the delightful meed of geological research. By...ideas, than figures can do, of the immensity of time."* " By the discoveries of a new science (the very name of which has been but a few years ingrafted on...

...geometer were measured the regions of space, and the relative distances of the heavenly bodies—by the geologist myriads of ages were reckoned, not by...arithmetical computation, but by a train of physical events—a succession of phenomena in the animate and inanimate worlds—signs which convey to our...

...change, and was still the subject of slow but never-ending fluctuations. The discovery of other systems in the boundless regions of space was the triumph...definite ideas than figures can do of the immensity of tune." — Vol. i. pp. 108, 109. Here Mr. Lyell closes his history of geological inquiry ; and here,...

...trace the same systfm through various transformations — to hohoM it * Discours stir les IIcvol. &c. at successive eras adorned with different hills and...ideas than figures can do of the immensity of time. Whether our investigation of the earth's history and structure will eventually be productive of as...

...change, and was still the subject of slow but never ending fluctuations. The discovery of other systems in the boundless regions of space was the triumph...ideas than figures can do of the immensity of time. "By the discoveries of a new science — the very name of which has been but a few years ingrafted...

...University of Cambridge, 1833. "By the geometer were measured the regions of space and the relative distance of the heavenly bodies ; by the geologist myriads...ideas than figures can do of the immensity of time." — Lyell's Principles of Geology, p. C3. " We cannot but believe that every impartial mind, which...

...system through various transformations — to behold it at successive eras adorned with dînèrent hills and valleys, lakes and seas, and peopled with...ideas than figures can do of the immensity of time. " By the discoveries of a new science — the very name of which has been but a few years ingrafted...