| 1811 - 538 páginas
...his Creator, or of his redeemer, either loo little or too much. A COMPEND OF GEOLOUY. Of th.s earth we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end. A new Heaven and a new Earth. The mountain is worn down to the ocean; the laiul gradually tends to... | |
| Thomas Keith - 1811 - 388 páginas
...heat, and expanded with amazing force. The doctor imagines the world to be eternal, and endued with a renovating power ; for he says : " When the former...vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end." 6. MR. WHITFHURST'S THFORY. naturally spherical, have been originally in a state of fluidity. Again, as... | |
| Joseph Sutcliffe - 1822 - 172 páginas
...look for any thing higher in the origin of the earth. The result, therefore, of our present enquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning ; no prospect of an end." It is not questioned but the Doctor's mother gave him suck ; but it may be of moment to repeat a few... | |
| 1829 - 742 páginas
...under the waters to be fitted again to re.ppear in its turn. Of these alternations Dr. Hutton >:iv s. we find no vestige of a beginning — no prospect of an end." 'his conclusion has been regarded by many as atheistical and mpious. But the supporters of this theory,... | |
| 1837 - 608 páginas
...look for any thing higher in the origin of the earth. The ' result, therefore, of our present enquiry is, that we find no ' vestige of a beginning — no prospect of an end.' These enlarged and philosophical views, which he subsequently expanded into a more perfect work, attracted... | |
| Antoine Claude Gabriel Jobert - 1847 - 212 páginas
...established in the system of nature, it is in vain to look for any thing higher in the origin of the earth. The result, therefore, of our present inquiry is,...no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end."* Mr. Lyell, adopting the philosophy of Hutton — " that geology is in nowise concerned with questions... | |
| Antoine Claude Gabriel Jobert - 1847 - 206 páginas
...established in the system of nature, it is in vain to look for any thing higher in the origin of the earth. The result, therefore, of our present inquiry is,...no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end."* Mr. Lyell, adopting the philosophy of Hutton— " that geology is in nowise concerned with questions... | |
| Antoine Claude Gabriel Jobert - 1846 - 390 páginas
...look for any thing higher in the origin of the earth. The result, therefore, of our present inquiry c2 is, that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end."* Mr. Lyell, adopting the philosophy of Hutton — " that geology is in nowise concerned with questions... | |
| Geological Society of London - 1869 - 674 páginas
...vain to look for anything higher in the origin of the earth. The result, therefore, of this physical inquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning, — no prospect of an end"§. Yet another influence worked strongly upon Hutton. Like most philosophers of his age, he coquetted... | |
| 1869 - 1500 páginas
...these mean that Hntton was not true to science, when he said, ' The result, therefore, of this physical inquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.' The chief complaint on which I nm now brought into court is, that I have exl ended the same accusation... | |
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