| Mrs. Francis B. Fogg - 1857 - 436 páginas
...the vegetation that clothed the anci, world, before half its surface was yet formed. The trees of 1 primeval forests have not, like modern trees, undergone...yielding back their elements to the soil and atmosphere that nc ished them ; but treasured up in subterranean storehouses, h been transformed into enduring... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - 636 páginas
...brought into immediate connection with the vegetation that clothed the ancient earth, before one half of its actual surface had yet been formed. The trees...elements to the soil and atmosphere by which they had been nourished; but, treasured up in subterranean storehouses, have been transformed into enduring... | |
| William Keane (gardener.) - 1861 - 252 páginas
...connection with the vegetation that clothed the ancient earth before one-half of its actual surface had been formed. The trees of the primeval forests have...elements to the soil and atmosphere by which they had been nourished ; but, treasured up in subterranean storehouses, have been transformed into enduring... | |
| Selection, Thomas Oliphant (of Edinburgh) - 1862 - 346 páginas
...events of very distant eras. We are all brought into immediate connection with the vegetation that clothed the ancient earth before one-half of its actual...elements to the soil and atmosphere by which they had been nourished; but, treasured up in subterranean storehouses, have been transformed into enduring... | |
| Matthew Richley - 1872 - 226 páginas
...events of those very distant eras We are all brought into immediate connection with the vegetation that clothed the ancient earth before one-half of its actual...surface had yet been formed. The trees of the primeval foreste have not, like modern trees, undergone decay, yielding back their elements to the soil and... | |
| Thomas Rowan (consulting engineer.) - 1882 - 144 páginas
...distinguishes his writings—" We are all brought back into immediate connection with the vegetation that clothed the ancient earth, before one-half of its...elements to the soil and atmosphere by which they had been nourished; but, treasured up in subterranean storehouses, have been transformed into enduring... | |
| 1837 - 608 páginas
...brought into immediate connexion with the vegetation that clothed the ancient earth, before one half of its actual surface had yet been formed. The trees...elements to the soil and atmosphere by which they had been nourished; but treasured up in subterranean store-houses, have been transformed into enduring... | |
| 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 - 608 páginas
...events of these very distant eras. We are all brought into immediate connexion with the vegetation that clothed the ancient earth before one-half of its actual...elements to the soil and atmosphere by which they had been nourished ; but, treasured up in subterranean storehouses, have been transformed into enduring... | |
| 1835 - 886 páginas
...events of these very distant eras. \Ve are all brought into immediate connexion with the vegetation that clothed the ancient earth, before one-half of its...undergone decay, yielding back their elements to the tail au-A atmosphere by which they had been nourished ; but, treasured up in subterranean storehouses,... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1859 - 826 páginas
...brought into immediate connexion with the vegetation that clothed the ancient earth, before one half of its actual surface had yet been formed. The trees...decay, yielding back their elements to the soil and atmosphère by which they had been nourished ; but, treasured up in subterranean storehouses, have... | |
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