 | Abraham Gottlob Werner - Basalt - 1809 - 312 pages
...would it not have been of to us ? Jfrojn.what ;do«bta would it not relieve us ? With jwhat snitiety do we not turn over the leaves of ancient chronicles...information, often very imperfect, obscure, and uncertain ? . Wjjlu_ what pleasure do we not receive the least sketch or plan of some ancient mine ? With what... | |
 | charles black - 1850 - 630 pages
...anxiety,' says the great practical miner and geologist, Werner, in speaking long ago of mining records, 'do we not turn over the leaves of ancient chronicles in search ' of information, often very obscure, imperfect, and uncertain? ' With what pleasure do we not receive the least sketch or plan... | |
 | David Thomas Ansted - Geology - 1856 - 654 pages
...century, of what advantage would it not have been to us ? From what doubts would it not have relieved us ? With what anxiety do we not turn over the leaves...ancient mine ? With what pains do we not rake up the heaps of rubbish brought out of old excavations, to discover pieces which may afford us some idea of... | |
 | Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson - Engineers - 1891 - 420 pages
...plan and description of a district, would form a most instructive volume. To which he added : — " If our ancestors had left us such documents for two...some ancient mine ? With what pains do we not rake up heaps of rubbish brought out of old excavations, to discover pieces which may afford us some idea of... | |
 | Geological Survey of India - Earthquakes - 1881 - 386 pages
...century, what advantage would it not have been to us ? From what doubts would it not have relieved us ! With what anxiety do we not turn over the leaves of ancient chronicles, in search of information ! With what pains do wo not rake up the old heaps of rubbish brought out of old excavations, to find... | |
 | English literature - 1850 - 628 pages
...anxiety,' says the great practical miner and geologist, Werner, in speaking long ago of mining records, 'do we not turn over the leaves of ancient chronicles in search ' of information, often very obscure, imperfect, and uncertain ? ' With what pleasure do we not receive the least sketch or plan... | |
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Such a collection, the plan and description of the district, form together a complete and instructive whole. If our ancestors had left us such documents for two centuries past, or even for half a century, what advantage would it not have been to us ?... 