Echoes from distant footfalls; or, The origin and unity of the human race

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Hodder and Stoughton, 1873 - 197페이지
 

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38 페이지 - With him his noblest sons might not compare, In godlike feature and majestic air ; Not out of weakness rose his gradual frame, Perfect from his Creator's hand he came ; And as in form excelling, so in mind The Sire of man transcended all mankind : A soul was in his eye, and in his speech A dialect of heaven no art could reach...
167 페이지 - ... feet above the present level of the Somme, for the deposition of fine sediment, including entire shells, both terrestrial and aquatic, and also for the denudation which the entire mass of stratified drift has undergone : portions having been swept away, so that what remains of it often terminates abruptly in old river cliffs, besides being covered by a newer unstratified drift.
93 페이지 - But when the judgments of the Almighty God Were ripe for execution ; when the Tower Rose to the skies upon Assyria's plain And all mankind one language only knew ; A dread commission from on high was given To the fell whirlwinds, which with dire alarms Beat on the Tower, and to Its lowest base Shook it convulsed.
157 페이지 - are so nearly related to existing forms, that it is often difficult, considering the enormous number (above 8000) of living species, and the imperfect state of preservation of the fossils, to determine exactly their specific relations. In general, I may say that I have not yet found a single species which was perfectly identical with any marine existing fish, except the little species which is found in nodules of clay, of unknown geological age, in Greenland.
70 페이지 - That, if there is any circumstance thoroughly established in geology, it is that the crust of our globe has been subjected to a great and sudden revolution, the epoch of which cannot be dated much farther back than five or six thousand years ago ; that this revolution had buried all the countries which were before inhabited by men and by the other animals that are now best known...
33 페이지 - Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
129 페이지 - Orbelus : but every man has several wives. They live in the following manner : every man has a hut on the planks, in which he dwells, with a trap-door closely fitted in the planks, and leading down to the lake. They tie the young children with a cord round the foot, fearing lest they should fall into the lake beneath. To their horses and beasts of burden they give fish for fodder; of which there is such...
93 페이지 - Beat on the Tower, and to its lowest base Shook it convulsed. And now all intercourse, By some occult and overruling power, Ceased among men : by utterance they strove Perplexed and anxious to disclose their mind ; But their lip failed them, and in lieu of words Produced a painful babbling sound : the place Was thence called Babel ; by th' apostate crew Named from the event.
17 페이지 - When the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy.
94 페이지 - ... by means of the more or less changed structure of the language, in the permanence of certain forms, or in the more or less advanced destruction of the formative system, which race has retained most nearly the language common to all who had migrated from the general seat of origin.

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