 A nice and scrupulous comparison of their forms, of their contexture, and frequently even of their composition, cannot detect the slightest difference between these shells and the shells which still inhabit the sea. They have therefore once lived in the...  Essay on the Theory of the Earth - Pàgina 31per Georges baron Cuvier - 1818 - 431 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Phillips - 1816 - 222 pàgines
...forms, cannot detect the slightest difference between some of these shells, and the shells which stiil inhabit the sea. They have therefore once lived in the sea, and been deposited by it; the sea must consequently have rested in the places where the deposition haa" taken place. Hence it is evident... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1818 - 500 pàgines
...is past for ignorance to assert that these remains of organized bodios are. mere turns nature, — productions generated in the womb of the earth by...forms, of their contexture, and frequently even of thrir composition, cannot detect the slightest difference between these shells and the shells which... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1821 - 512 pàgines
...»nl of those which still inhabit the sea, cannot di-tect the slightest différence between th-iti They have therefore once lived in the sea, and been deposited by it; the sea consequently must have rested in the piares where the deposition has taken place. Heno- it is evident,... | |
 | 1822 - 1148 pàgines
...' for hardy ignorance to assert that these remains of organized bodies are mere liisus ii'i/itrn', productions generated in the womb of the earth by its own creative powers.' The senseless jargon of ' potent wishes,' * What a triumph for M. Dcmaillct's philosophy, had he lived... | |
 | 1822 - 582 pàgines
...observes, ' for hardy ignorance to assert that these remains of organized bodies are mere /«SMS lidiara:, productions generated in the womb of the earth by its own creative powers.' .The senseless jargon of ' potent wishes,' • What a triumph for M. Demaillet's philosophy, lind he... | |
 | 1827 - 304 pàgines
...when ignorance could maintain that these remains of organized bodies are mere sportings of nature, productions generated in the womb of the earth by its own creative powers ; and the efforts made by some metaphysicians of the present day will not probably succeed in bringing... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 462 pàgines
...shells, and of those which still inhabit the sea, cannot detect the slightest difference between them. They have therefore, once lived in the sea, and been deposited by it; the sea consequently must have rested in the spots where the deposition has taken place. Hence it is evident,... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1831 - 980 pàgines
...shells, and of those which still inhabit the sea, cannot detect the slightest difference between them. They have therefore once lived in the sea, and been deposited by it : the sea consequently must have rested in the places where the deposition has taken place. Hence it is evident,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 680 pàgines
...is past for ignorance to assert that these remains of organized bodies arc mere limns natura', — productions generated in the womb of the earth by...once lived in the sea, and been deposited by it : the se» consequently must have rested in the places where the deposition has taken place. Hence it is... | |
 | Guillaume Monod - 1838 - 244 pàgines
...shells, and of those which still inhabit the sea, cannot detect the slightest difference between them. They have therefore once lived in the sea, and been deposited by it; the sea consequently must have rested in the places where the deposition has taken place. Hence it is évident... | |
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