Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, Parte 1W. Pickering, 1836 - 599 páginas |
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... facts are proved satisfactorily by the ingenious author , and show how much the criminality of this great man is exaggerated in the common accounts of his fall . But it is clearly shown , that he was prevailed upon by the intrigues of ...
... facts are proved satisfactorily by the ingenious author , and show how much the criminality of this great man is exaggerated in the common accounts of his fall . But it is clearly shown , that he was prevailed upon by the intrigues of ...
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... imperfect state of those subsidiary sciences , which , within the last half century , have enabled the geologist to return from the region of fancy to that of facts , and to establish his conclusions on the firm 6 INTRODUCTION .
... imperfect state of those subsidiary sciences , which , within the last half century , have enabled the geologist to return from the region of fancy to that of facts , and to establish his conclusions on the firm 6 INTRODUCTION .
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William Buckland. facts , and to establish his conclusions on the firm basis of philosophical induction . We now approach the study of the natural history of the globe , aided not only by the higher branches of Physics , but by still ...
William Buckland. facts , and to establish his conclusions on the firm basis of philosophical induction . We now approach the study of the natural history of the globe , aided not only by the higher branches of Physics , but by still ...
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... facts which it is his province to explore . These doubts and difficulties result from the disclosures made by geology , respecting the lapse of very long periods of time , before the creation of man . Minds which have been long ...
... facts which it is his province to explore . These doubts and difficulties result from the disclosures made by geology , respecting the lapse of very long periods of time , before the creation of man . Minds which have been long ...
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... facts on which such a theory may eventually be founded ; but , in the mean while , we have abun- dant evidence of numerous and indisputable phe- nomena , each establishing important and unde- niable conclusions ; and the aggregate of ...
... facts on which such a theory may eventually be founded ; but , in the mean while , we have abun- dant evidence of numerous and indisputable phe- nomena , each establishing important and unde- niable conclusions ; and the aggregate of ...
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