| 1897 - 370 páginas
...called upon to make grants of thousands of centuries in order to explain the events of what is culled the modern period, shrink naturally at first from...liberal grants of time to the Geologist, we feel how bard it is to get the chill of poverty out of our bones." Many, however, have at the present day got... | |
| 1864 - 578 páginas
...charity he was persuaded by a friend to make a more liberal donation. In doing so he apologized for his apparent want of generosity by saying that his early...to the geologist, we feel how hard it is to get the chill of poverty out of our bones. I will now briefly allude, in conclusion, to two points on which... | |
| 1864 - 126 páginas
...making what seems so lavish an expenditure of past time. Throughout our early education we have heen accustomed to such strict economy in all that relates to the chronology of the earth and its inhahitants in remote ages, so fettered have we heen hy old traditional heliefs, that even when our... | |
| 1864 - 668 páginas
...have been accustomed to such strict economy in all that relates to the chronology of the earth ami its inhabitants in remote ages, so fettered have we been by old traditional beliefs, that even wlfcn our reason is convinced, and we are persuaded that we ought to make more liberal grants of time... | |
| 1865 - 388 páginas
...order to abridge the number of centuries which would otherwise be indispensable, a disposition is shown by many to magnify the rate of change in prehistoric...to the geologist, we feel how hard it is to get the chill of poverty out of our bones. Recent Changes in Geological Opinions. — I will now briefly allude,... | |
| 1865 - 334 páginas
...order to abridge the number of centuries which would otherwise be indispensable, a disposition is shown by many to magnify the rate of change in prehistoric...ages, so fettered have we been by old traditional belief, that even when our reason ia convinced, and we are persuaded that we ought to make more liberal... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1865 - 816 páginas
...onr day, that when he was about to contribute somewhat parsimoniously towards a public charity, ho was persuaded by a friend to make a more liberal donation....that we ought to make more liberal grants of time to tho geologist, we feel how hard it is to get the chill of poverty out of our bones. I will now briefly... | |
| Charles Beard - 1865 - 736 páginas
...public chanty, ho was persuaded by a friend to make a more liberal donation. In doing so, he apologised for his first apparent want of generosity by saying...the chronology of the earth and its inhabitants in the remote ages, so fettered have we been by old traditional beliefs, that even when our reason is... | |
| 1865 - 728 páginas
...for his first apparent want of generosity by saying that his early life had been a constant straggle with scanty means, and that ' they who are born to...the chronology of the earth and its inhabitants in the remote ages, so fettered have wo been by old traditional beliefs, that even when our reason is... | |
| 1865 - 372 páginas
...past time. Throughout our early education we have been accustomed to such strict сгоношу ¡n all that relates to the chronology of the earth and...beliefs, that even when our reason is convinced, and we an' persuaded that we ought to make more liberal grants of time tí) the geologist, we feel how hard... | |
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