The Quarterly Review, Volume 114William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1863 - English literature |
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... peat . All the coins , axes , arms , and other utensils found in British and French mosses , are also Roman ; so that a considerable portion of the peat in European peat - bogs is evidently not more ancient than the age of Julius Cæsar ...
... peat . All the coins , axes , arms , and other utensils found in British and French mosses , are also Roman ; so that a considerable portion of the peat in European peat - bogs is evidently not more ancient than the age of Julius Cæsar ...
Page 382
... peat , the house was twelve feet square , and nine feet high , divided into two stories . It was founded on fine sand , below which the peat was at least fifteen feet thick . Lake - dwellings with stone implements are also recognised in ...
... peat , the house was twelve feet square , and nine feet high , divided into two stories . It was founded on fine sand , below which the peat was at least fifteen feet thick . Lake - dwellings with stone implements are also recognised in ...
Page 383
... peat - beds , we find the want of a scale of successive events common to them all , such as that which has guided geologists in all the earlier periods of the history of the earth . If we endeavour to supply this want by separate scales ...
... peat - beds , we find the want of a scale of successive events common to them all , such as that which has guided geologists in all the earlier periods of the history of the earth . If we endeavour to supply this want by separate scales ...
Page 389
... peat , we may prove their affinity with one or other of the successive groups of animal life which appeared in the country adjoining , and so infer their place in a scale of zoological sequence and geological time . Tried by this test ...
... peat , we may prove their affinity with one or other of the successive groups of animal life which appeared in the country adjoining , and so infer their place in a scale of zoological sequence and geological time . Tried by this test ...
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... peat , with flint tools of a more finished aspect , and a few fragments of human skeletons . In this peat the stone memorials of Celtic people lie below , the Gallo - Roman reliquiæ occur above . Oaks , alders , and walnuts appear ...
... peat , with flint tools of a more finished aspect , and a few fragments of human skeletons . In this peat the stone memorials of Celtic people lie below , the Gallo - Roman reliquiæ occur above . Oaks , alders , and walnuts appear ...
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Page 188 - his own bitterness ; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Page 60 - Thus saith the Lord; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.
Page 63 - And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
Page 238 - And here I prophesy ; — This brawl to-day Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Page 187 - And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? "For the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Page 209 - That the dead are seen no more, said Imlac, I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which...
Page 50 - Tarsus held, or that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim th' ocean stream: Him haply slumb'ring on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff, Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 153 - This rambling propensity strengthened with my years. Books of voyages and travels became my passion, and in devouring their contents, I neglected the regular exercises of the school. How wistfully would I wander about the...
Page 74 - And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
Page 70 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.