 ... in the planetary motions, where geometry has carried the eye so far both into the future and the past, we discover no mark either of the commencement or the termination of the present order.  Principles of geology - Page 92by sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1835Full view - About this book
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 512 pages
...species of animals and vegetables that inhabit the earth, we discern neither a beginning nor an end ; and in the planetary motions, where geometry has carried...we discover no mark, either of the commencement or the termination of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose, that such marks should... | |
 | Thomas Ragg - 1858 - 456 pages
...a circumstance that accords with what is known concerning other parts of the economy of the world. In the planetary motions, where Geometry has carried the eye so far into the future and the past, we discover no symptom either of the commencement or termination of the... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 826 pages
...species of animals and vegetables that inhabit the earth, we discern neither a beginning nor an end ; and in the planetary motions, where geometry has carried...we discover no mark, either of the commencement or the termination of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose, that such marks should... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 582 pages
...a circumstance that accords with what is known concerning other parte of the economy of the world. In the planetary motions, where geometry has carried...we discover no mark either of the commencement or the termination of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 584 pages
...a circumstance that accords with what is known concerning other parts of the economy of the world. In the planetary motions, where geometry has carried...we discover no mark either of the commencement or the termination of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should... | |
 | Christianity - 1868 - 626 pages
...species of animals and vegetables that inhabit the earth, we discern neither a beginning nor an end ; in the planetary motions, where geometry has carried...we discover no mark either of the commencement or the termination of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should... | |
 | Charles Beard - 1868 - 656 pages
...that inhabit the earth, we discern neither a beginning nor an end; in the planetary motions, whore geometry has carried the eye so far both into the...we discover no mark either of the commencement or the termination of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1872 - 714 pages
...their marine origin. The theory of former revolutions in organic life was not yet fully recognised ; and without this class of proofs in support of the...unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should anywhere exist. The Author of Nature has not given laws to the universe, whici, lite the institutions... | |
 | English literature - 1876 - 612 pages
...things there is no evidence either of a beginning or of an end. ' In the planetary motions,' he says, ' where geometry has carried the eye so far both into...we discover no mark either of the commencement or the termination of the present order. The author of Nature has not given laws to the Universe, which,... | |
 | Science - 1876 - 802 pages
...things there is no evidence either of a beginning or of an end. " In the planetary motions," he says, " where geometry has carried the eye so far both into...we discover no mark either of the commencement or the termination of the present order. The author of Nature has not given laws to the universe, which,... | |
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