 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 612 páginas
...conscious, in the geological events of these very distant eras. We are all brought into immediate connexion with the vegetation that clothed the ancient earth...wealth. My fire now burns with fuel, and my lamp is shining with the light of gas, derived from coal that has been buried for countless ages in the deep... | |
 | 1836 - 1184 páginas
...conscious, in the geological events of these very distant eras. We are all brought into immediate connexion with the vegetation that clothed the ancient earth...wealth. My fire now burns with fuel, and my lamp is shining with the light of gas, derived from coal that has been buried for countless ages in the deep... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 606 páginas
...conscious, in the geological events of these very distant eras. We are all brought into immediate connexion with the vegetation that clothed the ancient earth...wealth. My fire now burns with fuel, and my lamp is shining with the light of gas, derived from coal that has been buried for countless ages in the deep... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 610 páginas
...events of these very distant eras. "We are all brought into immediate connexion with the vegetation tbat clothed the ancient earth before one-half of its actual...wealth. My fire now burns with fuel, and my lamp is shining with the light of gas, derived from coal that has been buried for countless ages in the deep... | |
 | William Buckland - 1837 - 646 páginas
...which but few are conscious, in the geological events of these very distant eras. We are all brought into immediate connection with the vegetation that...wealth. My fire now burns with fuel, and my lamp is shining with the light of gas, derived from coal that has been buried for countless ages in the deep... | |
 | W. Paley - 1837 - 116 páginas
...the coal-strata found in our planet's crust. " The trees of the primeval forests," says Buckland, " have not, like modern trees, undergone decay, yielding...wealth. My fire now burns with fuel, and my lamp is shining with the light of gas, derived from coal that has been buried countless ages in the deep and... | |
 | William Buckland - 1837 - 476 páginas
...in subterranean storehouses, have been transformed into enduring beds of coal, which in these latter ages have become to man the sources of heat, and light,...wealth. My fire now burns with fuel, and my lamp is shining with the light of gas, derived from coal that has been buried for countless ages in the deep... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1839 - 422 páginas
...trees, undergone decay, yielding back their elements to the soil and atmosphere, by which they have been nourished, but, treasured up in subterranean...wealth. My fire now burns with fuel, and my lamp is shining with the light of gas, derived from coal that has been buried for countless ages in the deep... | |
 | William Sidney Gibson - 1840 - 328 páginas
...enduring beds of coal, which in these later ages have become to man the sources of light, and heat, and wealth. My fire now burns with fuel, and my lamp is shining with the light of gas, derived from coal that has been buried for countless ages, in the deep... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1847 - 430 páginas
...trees, undergone decay, yielding back their elements to the soil and atmosphere, by which they have been nourished, but, treasured up in subterranean...wealth. My fire now burns with fuel, and my lamp is shining with the light of gas, derived from coal that has been buried for countless ages in the deep... | |
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... formed. The trees of the primeval forests have not, like modern trees, undergone decay, yielding back their elements to the soil and atmosphere by which they had been nourished ; but, treasured up in subterranean storehouses, have been transformed... 
