 | John Playfait - 1822 - 668 pàgines
...similar to the past. * 118. How often these vicissitudes of decay and renovation have been repeated, is not for us to determine : they constitute a series, of which, as the author of this theory has remarked, we neither see the beginning nor the end ; a circumstance... | |
 | 1829 - 488 pàgines
...the following paragraph. " ' How often these vicissitudes of decay and renovation havo been repeated, is not for us to determine ; they constitute a series, of which, ns the author of this theory has remarked, we neither see the beginning nor the end ; a circumstance... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1829 - 704 pàgines
...for us to determine ; they constitute a series, of which, as the author of this theory has remarked, we neither see the beginning nor the end ; a circumstance that accords well with what is known concerning other parts of the economy of the world. In the continuation of... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pàgines
...again destined to emerge, and to exhibit a series of changes similar to the past. " How often these vicissitudes of decay and renovation have been repeated,...to determine ; they constitute a series, of which, as the author of this theory has remarked, we neither see the beginning nor the end, — a circumstance... | |
 | Samuel Sidwell Randall - 1846 - 216 pàgines
...changes similar to the past. How often these vicissitudes of decay and renovation have been repeated, is not for us to determine : they constitute a series of which we see neither the beginning nor the end ; a circumstance that accords well with what is known concerning... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 512 pàgines
...for us to determine ; they constitute a series, of which, as the author of this theory has remarked, we neither see the beginning nor the end, — a circumstance that accords well with what is known concerning other parts of the economy of the world. In the continuation of... | |
 | Thomas Ragg - 1858 - 456 pàgines
...Playfair, in his " Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth," remarks : " How often these vicissitudes of decay and renovation have been repeated, it is not for us to determine. They constitute a aeries of which we see neither the beginning nor the end — a circumstance that accords with what... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 826 pàgines
...again destined to emerge, and to exhibit a series of changes similar to the past. " How often these vicissitudes of decay and renovation have been repeated,...to determine ; they constitute a series, of which, as the author of this theory has remarked, we neither see the beginning nor the end, — a circumstance... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 582 pàgines
...the following eloquent passage from the 'Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory:' — "How often these vicissitudes of decay and renovation have been repeated,...circumstance that accords with what is known concerning other parte of the economy of the world. In the planetary motions, where geometry has carried the eye so... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 584 pàgines
...the following eloquent passage from the 'Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory:' — "How often these vicissitudes of decay and renovation have been repeated,...determine : they constitute a series, of which we neither nee the beginning nor the end — a circumstance that accords with what is known concerning other parts... | |
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How often these vicissitudes of decay and renovation have been repeated, is not for us to determine ; they constitute a series, of which, as the author of this theory has remarked, we neither see the beginning nor the end ; a circumstance that accords... 
