 In the course of the first day's employment, I picked up a nodular mass of blue limestone, and laid it open by a stroke of the hammer. Wonderful to relate, it contained inside a beautifully finished piece of sculpture — one of the volutes apparently...  The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Page 6911844Full view - About this book
 | 1858 - 620 pages
...reference to this form alone, Miller speaks of it as it then not unnaturally appeared to him — ' a beautifully finished piece of sculpture — one of the ' volutes apparently of an Ionic capital.' A fellow workman told him of a spot on the neighbouring coast, where these and other stones 'like thunderbolts'... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Geology - 1842 - 358 pages
...facts contained in these few sentences were the patient gatherings of years. , In the course of'the first day's employment, I picked up a nodular mass...hammer. Wonderful to relate, it contained inside a beautifully-finished piece of sculpture, — one of the volutes apparently of an Ionic capital ; and... | |
 | Criticism - 1850 - 676 pages
...sure than human testimony itself. " In the course of my first day's employment, I picked up," he says, "a nodular mass of blue limestone, and laid it open...broken the shell and found the little dog lying within, could have surprised me more. Was there another such curiosity in the whole world ? I broke open a... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Geology - 1851 - 352 pages
...in the dark, that the facts contained in these few sentences were the patient gatherings of years. In the course of the first day's employment, I picked...broken the shell and found the little dog lying within, could have surprised me more. Was there another such curiosity in the whole world ? I broke open a... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1852 - 394 pages
...in the dark, that the facts contained in these few sentences were the patient gatherings of years. In the course of the first day's employment, I picked...hammer. Wonderful to relate, it contained inside a beautifully-finished piece of sculpture — one of the volutes apparently of an Ionic capital ; and... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Geology - 1854 - 324 pages
...facts contained in these few sentences were the patient gatherings of years. In the course of the flrst day's employment, I picked up a nodular mass of blue...broken the shell and found the little dog lying within, could have surprised me more. Was there another such curiosity in the whole world ? I broke open a... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...in the dark, that the facts contained in these few sentences, were the patient gatherings of years. In the course of the first day's employment, I picked...blue limestone, and laid it open by a stroke of the hatumcr. Wonderful to relate, it contained inside a beautifully finished piece of sculpture — one... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Geology - 1858 - 456 pages
...in the dark, that the facts contained in these few sentences were the patient gatherings of years. In the course of the first day's employment, I picked...relate, it contained inside a beautifully finished piece of_scul£ture — one of the volutes apparently of an Ionic capital ; and not the far-famed walnut... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 pages
...in the dark, that the facts contained in these few sentences were the patient gatherings of years. In the course of the first day's employment, I picked...broken the shell and found the little dog lying within, could have surprised me more. Was there another such curiosity in the whole world ? I broke open a... | |
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