Nature is never in a hurry, and seems to have had always before her eyes the adage, " Keep a thing long enough, and you will find a use for it. The Story of the Earth and Man - 133 페이지저자: Sir John William Dawson - 1873 - 403 페이지전체보기 - 도서 정보
| 1870 - 688 페이지
...ancestor — and can perceive that a certain vein of thrift runs through this apparent prodigality. Nature is never in a hurry, and seems to have had...find a use for it." She has kept her beds of coal many millions of years without being able to find much use for them ; she has sent them down beneath... | |
| 1871 - 602 페이지
...ancestor, — and can perceive that a certain vein of thrift runs through this apparent prodigality. Nature is never in a hurry, and seems to have had...find a use for it.' She has kept her beds of coal many millions of years without being able to find much use for them ; she has sent them down beneath... | |
| 1873 - 796 페이지
...ancestor — and can perceive that a certain vein of thrift runs through this apparent prodigality. Nature is never in a hurry, and seems to have had...will find a use for it' She has kept her beds of coal many millions of years without being able to find much use for themv; she has sent them down beneath... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1873 - 428 페이지
...possibly ancestor—and can perceive that a certain vein of thrift runs through this apparent prodigality. Nature is never in a hurry, and seems to have had...find a use for it." She has kept her beds of coal many millions of years without being able to find much use for them ; she has sent them down beneath... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1873 - 342 페이지
...ancestor — and can perceive that a certain vein of thrift runs through this apparent prodigality. Nature is never in a hurry, and seems to have had...find a use for it." She has kept her beds of coal many millions of years without being able to find much use for them ; she has sent them down beneath... | |
| Samuel Miner Campbell - 1877 - 352 페이지
...this carboniferous noonday. Says Professor Huxley in the " Contemporary Review," " Nature never is in a hurry, and seems to have had always before her...make nothing of them ; she has raised them up into dry land and laid the black veins bare, and still for ages and ages there was no living thing on the... | |
| Stirling Natural History and Archaeological Society - 1883 - 510 페이지
...ancestor — and can perceive that a certain vein of thrift runs through this appparent prodigality. Nature is never in a hurry, and seems to have had...always before her eyes the adage, " Keep a thing long enengh and you will find a use for it." She has kept her beds of coal many uiillons of years without... | |
| W. Proudfoot Begg - 1887 - 424 페이지
...through the apparent prodigality. Nature is never in a hurry, and seems to have had always before her the adage, ' Keep a thing long enough, and you will find a use for it.' " l And now take a stone or a grain of sand. If you examine them closely you will find beauty there.... | |
| Sir John William Dawson - 1890 - 264 페이지
...which admirably draws the picture of provision for man, but unfortunately leaves out the Provider:— Nature is never in a hurry, and seems to have had...coal for millions of years without being able to find a use for them ; she has sent them beneath the sea, and the seabeasts could make nothing of them ;... | |
| Sir John William Dawson - 1893 - 598 페이지
...cannot refrain from quoting his clever apotheosis of nature in connection with the production of coal. " Nature is never in a hurry, and seems to have had always before her eyes the adage, iKeep a- thing long enough, amyou will find a use for it.- She has kept her beds of coal for millions... | |
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