 | Thomas Rowan (consulting engineer.) - 1882 - 144 páginas
...in that graphic and graceful language which distinguishes his writings — " We are all brought back into immediate connection with the vegetation that...elements to the soil and atmosphere by which they had been nourished ; but, treasured up in subterranean storehouses, have been transformed into enduring... | |
 | 1836 - 610 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...elements to the soil and atmosphere by which they had been nourished ; but, treasured up in subterranean storehouses, have been transformed into enduring... | |
 | 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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We are all 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 of the primeval forests have not, like modern trees, undergone decay, yielding back their... 
