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" ... is easy to perceive what extravagant systems they would frame, while under the influence of this delusion, to account for the monuments discovered in Egypt. • The sight of the pyramids, obelisks, colossal statues, and ruined temples, would fill... "
Principles of geology - Page 110
by sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1835
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Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former ..., Volume 1

Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1832 - 634 pages
...unworthy of men of great talent and sound judgment, we may rest assured that, if the same misconceptions now prevailed in regard to the memorials of human...astonishment, that for a time they would be as men spell-bound—wholly incapable to reason with sobriety. They might incline at first to refer the construction...
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Principles of Geology: Being an Inquiry how Far the Former Changes ..., Volume 1

Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1837 - 500 pages
...living beings until the creation of the present continents, and of the species now existing, — it is easy to perceive what extravagant systems they...incline at first to refer the construction of such stupendous works to some superhuman powers of a primeval world. A system might be invented resembling...
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Principles of Geology: Being an Inquiry how Far the Former Changes ..., Volume 1

Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1837 - 568 pages
...living beings until the creation of the present continents, and of the species now existing, — it is easy to perceive what extravagant systems they...Egypt. The sight of the pyramids, obelisks, colossal statutes, and ruined temples, would fill them with such astonishment, that for a time they would be...
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Principles of Geology: Or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and Its ..., Volume 1

Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1872 - 714 pages
...living beings until the creation of the present continents, and of the species now existing,— it is easy to perceive what extravagant systems they...incline at first to refer the construction of such stupendous works to some superhuman powers of a primeval world. A system might be invented resembling...
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Scientific Papers: Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology: With ...

Geology - 1910 - 452 pages
...living beings until the creation of the present continents, and of the species now existing,— it is easy to perceive what extravagant systems they...incline at first to refer the construction of such stupendous works to some superhuman powers of the primeval world. A system might be invented resembling...
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The Abyss of Time: Changing Conceptions of the Earth's Antiquity After the ...

Claude C. Albritton - Science - 2002 - 256 pages
...the Nile had never been populated by the human race before the beginning of the nineteenth century. The sight of the pyramids, obelisks, colossal statues,...incline at first to refer the construction of such stupendous works to some superhuman powers of a primeval world. 1//) Discovery of the mummies would...
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