Geognosy; Or, The Facts and Principles of Geology Against TheoriesF. Knight, 1855 - 412 páginas |
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... agency of heat , air , and water , acting only on the scale , and with the intensity , with which they are now disintegrating rocks , and bearing their detritus to the sea - is to beg at the outset , the very point which they affect to ...
... agency of heat , air , and water , acting only on the scale , and with the intensity , with which they are now disintegrating rocks , and bearing their detritus to the sea - is to beg at the outset , the very point which they affect to ...
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... agencies , both organic and inorganic , which are now in progress , in order to under- stand those which have been ... agency ; and compare these effects with the monuments of more ancient revolutions , and thus endeavor to trace the ...
... agencies , both organic and inorganic , which are now in progress , in order to under- stand those which have been ... agency ; and compare these effects with the monuments of more ancient revolutions , and thus endeavor to trace the ...
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... agencies employed in producing changes on the face of the globe . WATER , which wastes away grain by grain the elevated portions of the land , and deposits its spoils in lower situations , thus ever tending to equalize the levels of the ...
... agencies employed in producing changes on the face of the globe . WATER , which wastes away grain by grain the elevated portions of the land , and deposits its spoils in lower situations , thus ever tending to equalize the levels of the ...
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... agency of essentially the same energy as that by which these causes are now giving birth to similar effects ; as the result " of one uniform system of change in the animate and inanimate world , " that has been in progress " from the ...
... agency of essentially the same energy as that by which these causes are now giving birth to similar effects ; as the result " of one uniform system of change in the animate and inanimate world , " that has been in progress " from the ...
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... agencies , of whose charac ter and laws we know nothing , or have accomplished the whole by the immediate fiat of his omnipotence , there then is an end to all reasoning on the subject . " - Literary Gazette , 1834 , p . 771. * They ...
... agencies , of whose charac ter and laws we know nothing , or have accomplished the whole by the immediate fiat of his omnipotence , there then is an end to all reasoning on the subject . " - Literary Gazette , 1834 , p . 771. * They ...
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Geognosy; Or, The Facts and Principles of Geology Against Theories David Nevins Lord Vista completa - 1857 |
Geognosy; Or, The Facts and Principles of Geology Against Theories David Nevins Lord Vista completa - 1855 |
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