 | Curiosities and wonders - 1796 - 622 pages
...augmentation; it has anothee ftate, which is that of diminution and decay. This world is thus deftroyed in one part, but it is renewed in another ; and the operations by which this world is thus conftantly renewed, are as evident to the Scientific eye, as are thofe in which it is neceffarily deftroyed.... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1797 - 612 pages
...augmentation ; it has another flate, which is that of diminution and decay. This world is thus deftroyed in one part, but it is renewed in another; and the...is thus constantly renewed, are as evident to the fcientific eye, as are thofe in which it is nccefljrily deftroyed. The marks of the internal fire,... | |
 | English literature - 1797 - 618 pages
...augmentation ; it has another ftate, which is that of diminution and decay,. This world is thus deftroyed in one part, but it is renewed in another; and the operations by wiiich this world is thus constantly renewed, are rre. evident to the fcientific eye, as are thofe... | |
 | Louis Figuier - Geology, Stratigraphic - 1866 - 542 pages
...earth, like the body of an animal, is wasted, as the philosophical Button tells us, at the same tune that it is repaired. It has a state of growth and...another state, which is that of diminution and decay : it is destroyed in one part to be renewed in another ; and the operations by which this is accomplished... | |
 | Edinburgh Geological Society - Geology - 1885 - 680 pages
...power of a great river exemplified, and we recognise the truth of Button's theory that " the world is destroyed in one part, but it is renewed in another...as are those in which it is necessarily destroyed." I have now stated generally the Theory of the Earth as propounded by Hutton, but I may also add a summary... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Science - 1916 - 1104 pages
...are not to make nature act in violation to that order which we actually observe." He remarks 3 that " this world is thus destroyed in one part, but it is...as are those in which it is necessarily destroyed." Yet the operations that are to " give birth to future continents," as well as those that wear down... | |
 | Thomas Mellard Reade - Geology - 1886 - 472 pages
...faileu comprehend it. He sums up his facts in this way : — " The Earth, like the body of an animal, is wasted at the same time that it is repaired. It...as are those in which it is necessarily destroyed." * Intrusions of * ' Theory of the Earth,' p. 662. The comparison of the gradual growth of the structure... | |
 | William Jasper Nicolls - Coal - 1896 - 434 pages
...growth and augmentation ; it has another state, which is that of diminution and decay. " This world is destroyed in one part, but it is renewed in another,...as are those in which it is necessarily destroyed." No one who has ever studied the locations of the various coal basins in this country can have failed... | |
 | William Jasper Nicolls - Coal - 1896 - 418 pages
...globe and a system of beautiful economy in the works of nature. This earth, like the body of an animal, is wasted at the same time that it is repaired. "...which is that of diminution and decay. " This world is destroyed in one part, but it is renewed in another, and the operations by which this world is thus... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1916 - 1044 pages
...quay at Lisbon in 1755 had not appealed to him as breaks in an orderly succession. He admits s that ' this world is thus destroyed in one part, but -it...as are those in which it is necessarily destroyed.' Yet the operations that are to ' give birth to future continents,' as well as those that wear down... | |
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This earth, like the body of an animal, is wasted at the same time that it is repaired. It has a state of growth and augmentation; it has another state, which is that of diminution and decay. This world is thus destroyed in one part, but it is renewed... 
