 | Early English newspapers - 1788 - 694 pages
...of nature, • " in their prcfenf flatc gnd pofition > " and the power, that has been peceffa" rily required for their change, has not " been inferior to that which might jor to that which " have been required for their elevation yeftexday, and Know nothing, will "(ufk... | |
 | John Donaldson - Clay - 1852 - 160 pages
...could not have been thus originally formed, and the power that has produced this change cannot have been inferior to that which might have been required...elevation from the place in which they had been formed. Natural appearances confirm this reasoning, and the inference is, that the land on which we dwell has... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 400 pages
...known laws of nature, in their present state and position ; and the power that has been necessarily required for their change has not been inferior to...required for their elevation from the place in which they have been formed." ' From all this, therefore, Hutton reached the conclusion that the elevation of... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams, Edward Huntington Williams - Science - 1904 - 380 pages
...the power that has been necessarily required for their change has not been inferior to that which 127 might have been required for their elevation from the place in which they have been formed." 2 From all this, therefore, Hutton reached the conclusion that the elevation of... | |
 | Joseph E. Harmon, Alan G. Gross - History - 2007 - 353 pages
...known laws of nature, in their present state and position; and the power that has been necessarily required for their change, has not been inferior to...elevation from the place in which they had been formed. . . . WE are now to conclude, that the land on which we dwell had been elevated from a lower situation... | |
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... vertical; from continuous, they are broken and separated in every possible direction; and, from a plane, they are bent and doubled. It is impossible that they could have originally been formed, by the known laws of nature, in their present state and... 