 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1837 - 584 pages
...of the inhabitants, then, indeed, the abrupt passage from a Greek to a Roman, and from a Roman to an Italian city, would afford proof of fluctuations no...in every region of the globe, an unbroken series of monuwilts to commemorate the vicissitudes of the organic creation, we might infer the sudden extirpation... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1837 - 582 pages
...the in' habitants, then, indeed, the abrupt passage from a Greek to a Roman, and from a Roman to an Italian city, would afford proof of fluctuations no less sudden in the language of the people. ments to commemorate the vicissitudes of the organic creation, we might infer the sudden extirpation... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1872 - 714 pages
...of the inhabitants, then, indeed, the abrupt passage from a Greek to a Roman, and from a Roman to an Italian city, would afford proof of fluctuations no...introduction of others, as often as two formations in contact are found to include dissimilar organic fossils. But we must shut our eyes to the whole economy of... | |
 | Education, Member of the New Zealand Bar - 1873 - 328 pages
...mortal to the immortal being, see the Appendix. the language of the people. So in geology, if we would assume that it is part of the plan of nature to preserve...introduction of others, as often as two formations in contact are found to include dissimilar organic fossils. But we must shut our eyes to the whole economy of... | |
 | Astronomy - 1902 - 230 pages
...of the inhabitants, then, indeed, the abrupt passage from a Greek to a Roman, and from a Roman to an Italian city, would afford proof of fluctuations no...sudden extirpation of species, and the simultaneous intro132 duction of others, as often as two formations in contact are found to include dissimilar organic... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 482 pages
...of the inhabitants, then, indeed, the abrupt passage from a Greek to a Roman, and from a Roman to an Italian city, would afford proof of fluctuations no...introduction of others, as often as two formations in contact are found to include dissimilar organic fossils. But we must shut our eyes to the whole economy of... | |
 | William S. Knickerbocker - Science - 1927 - 410 pages
...of the inhabitants, then, indeed, the abrupt passage from a Greek to a Roman, and from a Roman to an Italian city, would afford proof of fluctuations no...introduction of others, as often as two formations in contact are found to include dissimilar organic fossils. But we must shut our eyes to the whole economy of... | |
 | Stephen Edelston Toulmin, Stephen Toulmin, June Goodfield - Philosophy - 1982 - 292 pages
...a sudden change from the Greek to the Italian language in Campania. . . . So, in geology, if we can assume that it is part of the plan of nature to preserve,...introduction of others, as often as two formations in contact are found to include dissimilar organic fossils. But we must shut our eyes to the whole economy of... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 456 pages
...of the inhabitants, then, indeed, the abrupt passage from a Greek to a Roman, and from a Roman to an Italian city, would afford proof of fluctuations no...introduction of others, as often as two formations in contact are found to include dissimilar organic fossils. But we must shut our eyes to the whole economy of... | |
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... this antiquary could have shown that the volcanic paroxysms of Vesuvius were so governed as that cities should be buried one above the other, just as often as any variation occurred in the language of the inhabitants, then, indeed, the abrupt passage... 