 | Edward Hitchcock - Bible and geology - 1859 - 628 pages
...and cultivating the physical powers, even of the youngest ; for Europe's ablest philosophers declare, that " geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of...which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of sciences, next to astronomy." Were our youth early made familiar with it, it would be comparatively... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1860 - 400 pages
...and cultivating the physical powers, even of the youngest ; for Europe's ablest philosophers declare that " geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of...which it treats, undoubtedly ranks in the scale of science next to astronomy." Were our youth early made familiar with it, it would lie comparativelv... | |
 | William J. Barbee - Bible and geology - 1861 - 432 pages
...of Him whose tender mercies are over all his works. It is an oft-quoted remark of Sir JFW Herschel, that " geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks next to astronomy in the scale of the sciences." We candidly think that it is coequal, and we doubt... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1862 - 558 pages
...(pronounced Bref-tha). * BKEC'-CII-TZD (pronounced Ertk'^ht-ai-eO}. LESSON XVII.â BRIEF EXTRACTS. 1. "GEOLOGY, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks next to astronoiny in the scale of the sciences." â SIR JFW HERSCHEL. 2. " Every rock in the desert,... | |
 | Science - 1863 - 320 pages
....s LONDON : 6AYILL AJfD EDWARDS, PRINTERS, CHANDOS-STEEET, COlJiKT-GAIinEN. (With a Portrait.) âŽt GEOLOGY, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects...in the scale of the sciences next to Astronomy."* This distinction it owes to the fact that its modern cultivators have sought within the ranks of modern... | |
 | Thomas Pearson - Skepticism - 1863 - 344 pages
...labours, in some measure, under it. Geology has secured its place among the inductive sciences ; and, " in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which...in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy." * It is a fixed principle of this science, â which extended observations are constantly strengthening,... | |
 | Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies - Military art and science - 1863 - 778 pages
...only be obtained by dint of hard walking; while, on the other hand, Sir J. Herschel has pronounced that " Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of...which it treats, undoubtedly ranks in the scale of sciences next to astronomy." What these objects are is eloquently expressed by Professor Sedgwick,... | |
 | Richard Lane Freer - Archdeacons - 1866 - 316 pages
...demonstration of the most sublime and glorious attributes of the Creator. A Herschel has pronounced that " Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of...which it treats, undoubtedly ranks in the scale of sciences next to astronomy." And the history of the structure of our planet, when it shall be fully... | |
 | Richard Lane Freer - Archdeacons - 1866 - 316 pages
...demonstration of the most sublime and glorious attributes of the Creator. A Hcrschel has pronounced that " Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of...which it treats, undoubtedly ranks in the scale of sciences next to astronomy." And the history of the structure of our planet, when it shall be fully... | |
 | 1837 - 472 pages
...demonstration of the most sublime and glorious attributes of the Creator. A Herschel has pronounced that " geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of...which it treats, undoubtedly ranks in the scale of sciences next to astronomy ;" and the history of the structure of our planet, when it shall be fully... | |
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geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy... 
