Persons to whom this subject may now be presented for the first time will receive, with much surprise, perhaps almost with incredulity, such statements as are -here advanced. It must be admitted that they at first seem much more like the dreams of fiction... The Quarterly Review - Page 47edited by - 1836Full view - About this book
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 612 pages
...secondary series, when so large a field was occupied by extinct animals, referable to the order of Sauricms or lizards, ' An aye of reptiles, when neither the...calm and deliberate investigation ; but to those who \viil examine the evidence of facts upon which the conclusions rest, there can remain no more reasonable... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 610 pages
...panoply of his bony armour, where was the enemy that would dare encounter this leviathan of the Pampas 1 or in what more powerful creature can we find the...investigation ; but to those who will examine the evidence of facts upon which the conclusions rest, there can remain no more reasonable doubt of the former existence... | |
| English literature - 1836 - 1184 pages
...proofs of the infinitely varied, and inexhaustible contrivances of creative wisdom.'—pp. 163, 104. We are next carried back to those distant ages during...investigation ; but to those who will examine the evidence of facts upon which the conclusions rest, there can remain no more reasonable doubt of the former existence... | |
| William Buckland - Bible and geology - 1837 - 476 pages
...progressive stages of animal creation, when the first parents of the human race were called into existence. Persons to whom this subject may now be presented...almost with incredulity, such statements as are here advauced. It must be admitted, that they at first seem much more like the dreams of fiction and romance,... | |
| William John Broderip - Animal behavior - 1847 - 434 pages
...be granted is startling ; but it is not more startling than true : hear Dr. Buckland again : — " Persons to whom this subject may now be presented...investigation ; but, to those who will examine the evidence of facts upon which our conclusions rest, there can remain no more reasonable doubt of the former existence... | |
| Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1848 - 876 pages
...stages of animal creation, when the first parents of the human race were called into existence.' .... ' Persons to whom this subject may now be presented...investigation; but to those who will examine the evidence of facts upon which our conclusions rest, there can remain no more reasonable doubt of the former existence... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...found distributed among three distinct classes of the animal kingdom. " Persons," says Dr. Buckland, "to whom this subject may now be presented for the...investigation ; but to those who will examine the evidence of facts upon which our conclusions rest, there can remain no more reasonable doubt of the former existence... | |
| 1848 - 874 pages
...stages of animal creation, when the first parents of the human race were called into existence." .... ' Persons to whom this subject may now be presented...admitted that they at first seem much more like the dreamt of fiction and romance, than the sober results of calm and deliberate investigation ; but to... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...found distributed among three distinct classes of the animal kingdom. " Persons," says Dr. Buckland, " to whom this subject may now be presented for the...investigation ; but to those who will examine the evidence of facts upon which our conclusions rest, there can remain no more reasonable doubt of the former existence... | |
| Henry Davenport Northrop - Science - 1887 - 886 pages
...mechanical contrivances which are now found distributed among three distinct classes of the animal kingdom. Persons to whom this subject may now be presented...investigation ; but to those who will examine the evidence of facts upon which our conclusions rest, there can remain no more reasonable doubt ot the former existence... | |
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