 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1833 - 570 páginas
...liberty to indulge their imaginations, in guessing at what might be, rather than in inquiring a- lut l is; in other words, they employed themselves in conjecturing...credibility appeared enhanced by the great contrast of the causes or forces introduced to those now developed incur terrestrial system during a period,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - 474 páginas
...their imaginations, in guessing at what might be, rather than in inquiring what is ; in other words, _ they employed themselves in conjecturing what might...credibility appeared enhanced by the great contrast of the causes or forces introduced to those now developed in our terrestrial system during a period,... | |
 | 1853 - 690 páginas
...felt themselves at liberty to indulge their imaginations in guessing at what might be, rather than inquiring what is ; in other words, they employed...; and having invented theories under the influence öf such maxims, they were consistently unwilling to test theii validity by the criterion of their... | |
 | 1853 - 688 páginas
...remote period, rather than in the investigation of what was the course of nature in their own t ¡mes. " It appeared to them more philosophical to speculate...such maxims, they were consistently unwilling to test theit validity by the criterion of their accordance with the ordinai'}' operations of nature. On the... | |
 | John Evans - 1876 - 94 páginas
...work, as a whole, was dealt the most telling blow that had ever fallen on those to whom it appeared " more philosophical to speculate on the possibilities...patiently to explore the realities of the present," while the earnest and careful endeavour to reconcile the former indications of change with the evidence... | |
 | Charles Gould - 1886 - 430 páginas
...iii.), as a whole, was dealt the most telling blow that had ever fallen upon those to whom it appears ' more philosophical to speculate on the possibilities...patiently to explore the realities of the present,' while the earnest and careful endeavour to reconcile the former indications of change with the evidence... | |
 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier Dampier - 1924 - 312 páginas
...charms, affording, as it did, full scope to the fancy to indulge in a boundless field of speculation. It appeared to them more philosophical to speculate...credibility appeared enhanced by the great contrast of the causes or forces introduced to those now developed in our terrestrial system during a period,... | |
 | Charles Lyell - 1990 - 604 páginas
...from the observation of the actual economy of nature, and having decided that they could not, they felt themselves at liberty to indulge their imaginations,...credibility appeared enhanced by the great contrast of the causes or forces introduced to those now developed in our terrestrial system during a period,... | |
 | Charles Lyell - 1990 - 604 páginas
...liberty to indulge their imaginations, in guessing at what might be, rather than in inquiring what in ; in other words, they employed themselves in conjecturing...credibility appeared enhanced by the great contrast of the causes or forces introduced to those now developed in our terrestrial system during a period,... | |
 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier - 2003 - 312 páginas
...what might be, rather than inquiring what w; in other words, they employed themselves in conj ecturing what might have been the course of nature at a remote...credibility appeared enhanced by the great contrast of the causes or forces introduced to those now developed in our terrestrial system during a period,... | |
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... is ; in other words, they employed themselves in conjecturing what might have been the course of nature at a remote period, rather than in the investigation of what was the course of nature in their own times. It appeared to them more philosophical... 
