The works of Charles Kingsley, Volumen191880 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 29
Página 40
... forest , with the trees upright and rooted ; under that another layer of blue silt full of roots and vegetable fibre ; perhaps under that again another old land surface with trees again growing in it ; and under all the main bottom clay ...
... forest , with the trees upright and rooted ; under that another layer of blue silt full of roots and vegetable fibre ; perhaps under that again another old land surface with trees again growing in it ; and under all the main bottom clay ...
Página 81
... forest has plainly sunk beneath a lagoon ; and that lagoon , again , beneath the sea . And how long did this period of slow sinking go on ? Who can tell ? The thickness of the Lias and Oolites together cannot be less than a thousand ...
... forest has plainly sunk beneath a lagoon ; and that lagoon , again , beneath the sea . And how long did this period of slow sinking go on ? Who can tell ? The thickness of the Lias and Oolites together cannot be less than a thousand ...
Página 92
... forest . You may see the forest growing in its bed of vegetable mould ; you may see the forest dead and converted into peat , with stems and roots in it ; that , again , into sunken forests , like those to be seen below high - water ...
... forest . You may see the forest growing in its bed of vegetable mould ; you may see the forest dead and converted into peat , with stems and roots in it ; that , again , into sunken forests , like those to be seen below high - water ...
Página 95
... forests of the coal . Of the Sigillariæ we cannot say as much with certainty , for botanists are not agreed as to what low order of flowerless plants they belong . But that they rooted in clay beds there is proof , as you will hear ...
... forests of the coal . Of the Sigillariæ we cannot say as much with certainty , for botanists are not agreed as to what low order of flowerless plants they belong . But that they rooted in clay beds there is proof , as you will hear ...
Página 99
... forest - covered swamps in the valley and delta of the Mississippi , in passing through them , are filtered and made to clear themselves entirely before they reach the areas in which vegetable matter may accumulate for centuries ...
... forest - covered swamps in the valley and delta of the Mississippi , in passing through them , are filtered and made to clear themselves entirely before they reach the areas in which vegetable matter may accumulate for centuries ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
age of ice ancient beautiful become beds believe beneath bottom boulders Cambrian carbonic acid chalk coal common sense coral deposited Dogmersfield dread earth earthquakes England explain facts fancy fear flora forests fossils geologists geology glacier gravel gravel-pit Greenland grow habit of mind human island Keuper laid lava laws layers least lime limestone live London clay look miles millstone grit Moritz Wagner mountains natural history Natural Science natural theology North Odiham Old Red sandstone once pebbles perhaps physical science plants and animals probably proof question race rain readers reason Red sandstone reverence rivers rocks round sand scientific Scotland Scripture shells Silurian slate Snowdon Snowdonia soil species stones strange strata superstition suppose surely tell theory things thousand trees tropic true unknown upheaved vast vegetable volcanic Wales wasps whole words yourselves
Pasajes populares
Página 284 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Página 318 - While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
Página 9 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Página 17 - Iron sharpeneth iron ; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Página 323 - My substance, was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes, did see my substance, yet being imperfect ; and, in thy book, all my members, were written, which, in continuance, were fashioned, when, as yet, there was none of them.
Página 213 - As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself...
Página 253 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Página 283 - Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Página 305 - For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things which are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.
Página 285 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.