 The historian or the antiquary may have traversed the fields of ancient or of modern battles, and may have pursued the line of march of triumphant conquerors, whose armies trampled down the most mighty kingdoms of the world. The winds and storms have...  The Quarterly Review - Página 53editado por - 1836Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Henry Duncan - 1836 - 430 páginas
...antiquary may have traversed the fields of ancient or of modern battles, and may have pursued the line of march of triumphant conquerors, whose armies trampled...reptiles that crawled upon the halffinished surface of our infant planet, have left memorials of their passage enduring and indelible. No history has recorded... | |
 | 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
...remarks, ' may have traversed the fields of ancient or of modern battles ; and may have pursued the line of march of triumphant conquerors, whose armies trampled...reptiles, that crawled upon the half-finished surface of our infant planet, have left memorials of their passage, enduring and indelible. No history has recorded... | |
 | 1836 - 1184 páginas
...to render it quite certain that the fossil footsteps were also impressed by the feet of tortoises. track remains of a single foot, or a single hoof,...reptiles, that crawled upon the half-finished surface of our infant planet, have left memorials of their passage, enduring and indelible. No history has recorded... | |
 | George Fairholme - 1837 - 490 páginas
...may have pursued the line of march of triumphant conquerors, whose armies trampled down the mightiest kingdoms of the world. The winds and storms have utterly...reptiles that crawled upon the half-finished surface of our infant planet, have left memorials of their passage enduring and indelible. No history has recorded... | |
 | 1837 - 756 páginas
...stamped the indelible memorials of its existence on the rock, while not a track remains of a single foot of all the countless millions of men and beasts whose progress spread desolation over the earth.' We are obliged to draw our observations to a conclusion without having room to touch on that most interesting... | |
 | 1844 - 608 páginas
...them as brief as it must be popular. " The historian," says Dr. Buckland, " may have pursued the line of march of triumphant conquerors, whose armies trampled...reptiles that crawled upon the half-finished surface of our infant planet, have left memorials of their passage, enduring and indelible." As a moral lesson,... | |
 | 1844 - 612 páginas
...them as brief as it must be popular. " The historian," says Dr. Buckland, " may have pursued the line of march of triumphant conquerors, whose armies trampled...impressions of their course. Not a track remains of a smgle foot, or a single hoof, of all the countless millions of men and beasts whose progress spread... | |
 | 1846 - 576 páginas
...antiquary, may have traversed the fields of ancient or of modern battles, and may have pursued the line of march of triumphant conquerors, whose armies trampled...ephemeral impressions of their course. Not a track • " The deepest mine in the world (Kitzpuhl, in the Tyrol) a only 2764 feet below the surface." —... | |
 | 1846 - 576 páginas
...is only 2764 feet below the surface." — Phillips' Geology, i. 18. -(- Buckland's Br. Tr., i. 262. remains of a single foot, or a single hoof, of all...the earth. But the reptiles that crawled upon the half finished surface of our infant planet have left memorials of their passage, enduring and indelible.... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1847 - 430 páginas
...antiquary may have traversed the fields of ancient or of modern battles, and may have pursued the line of march of triumphant conquerors, whose armies trampled...reptiles that crawled upon the half-finished surface of our infant planet, have left memorials of their passage enduring and indelible. No history has recorded... | |
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