The Life and Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick, Volume 1University Press, 1890 - Geologists |
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Page 29 - FREDERICK M°CoY, FGS One vol., Royal 410. Plates, /i. is. A CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF CAMBRIAN AND SILURIAN FOSSILS contained in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge, by JW SALTER, FGS With a Portrait of PROFESSOR SEDGWICK.
Page 379 - ... them the marks of skill and wisdom, and finds within them the tombs of the ancient inhabitants of the earth. He finds strange and unlooked-for changes in the forms and fashions of organic life during each of the long periods he thus contemplates. He traces these changes backwards through each successive era, till he reaches a time when the monuments lose all symmetry, and the types of organic life are no longer seen. He has then entered on the dark age of nature's history ; and he closes the...
Page 344 - Our errors were, however, natural, and of the same kind which led many excellent observers of a former century to refer all the secondary formations of geology to the Noachian deluge.
Page 66 - Eight arguments, each consisting of three or four syllogisms, are brought by the first, five by the second, and three by the third opponent. The opponent is dismissed by the Moderator with such a compliment as he deserves ; and after the other two opponents have performed their parts, the exercise closes with the dismission of the Respondent in a similar manner. The distinguished men of the year appear eight times in this manner in the Schools, twice as acts and six times as opponents; that is, twice...
Page 143 - I knew nothing at all of Chemistry, had never read a syllable on the subject; nor seen a single experiment in it...
Page 223 - He who with pocket hammer smites the edge Of luckless rock or prominent stone, disguised In weather-stains or crusted o'er by Nature With her first growths — detaching by the stroke A chip or splinter — to resolve his doubts; And, with that ready answer satisfied, The substance classes by Borne barbarous name, And hurries on...
Page 445 - The historian or the antiquary may have traversed the fields of ancient or of modern battles, and may have pursued the line of march of triumphant conquerors, whose armies trampled down the most mighty kingdoms of the world. The winds and storms have utterly obliterated the ephemeral impressions in their course.
Page 344 - I think, one great negative conclusion now incontestably established — that the vast masses of diluvial gravel, scattered almost over the surface of the earth, do not belong to one violent and transitory period. It was indeed a most unwarranted conclusion, when we assumed the contemporaneity of all the superficial gravel on the earth. We saw the clearest traces of diluvial action, and we had, in our sacred histories, the record of a general deluge. On this double testimony it was, that we gave...
Page 445 - The winds and storms have utterly obliterated the ephemeral impressions of their course. Not a track remains of a single foot, or a single hoof, of all the countless millions of men and beasts whose progress spread desolation over the earth. But the Reptiles that crawled upon the half-finished surface of our infant planet, have left memorials of their passage, enduring and indelible.
Page 192 - Colleges, who objected to their " Pupils attending the Public Lectures of any Person who is neither a Member of the University, nor a Member of the Church of England.