 Treatise," which had cost him hours and days of labor. He would give his left hand to possess such powers of description as this man : and if it pleased Providence to spare his useful life, he, if any one, would certainly render science attractive and...  The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Page 6931844Full view - About this book
 | Hugh Miller - Geology - 1842 - 358 pages
...to possess such powers of description as this man ; and if it pleased Providence to spare his useful life, he, if any one, would certainly render the science...popular, and do equal service to Theology and Geology. It must be gratifying to Mr Miller to hear that his discovery had been assigned his own name by such... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1843 - 576 pages
...possess such powers of description as this man ; and, if it pleased Providence to spare his useful life, he, if any one, would certainly render the science...and popular, and do equal service to THEOLOGY and to Geology." Treating upon the Devonian formation, Mr. Richardson observes, that it has been " described... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1844 - 766 pages
...to spare his life, he, if any one, would certainly render the science attractive and popular, and da equal service to theology and geology.' Let us now...which he knows so well how to describe. Let it be that exploratory excursion of which he says : — ' I set out on a delightful morning of August, 1830. The... | |
 | Literature - 1859 - 868 pages
...to possess such powers of description as this man; and if it pleased Providence to spare his useful life, he, if any one, would certainly render the science...popular, and do equal service to theology and geology.' At the meetings of the Association, the language of panegyric and of mutual compliment is not unfrequent,... | |
 | Hugh Miller - England - 1847 - 454 pages
...to possess such powers of description as this man ; and if it pleased Providence to spare his useful life, he, if any one, would certainly render the science...popular, and do equal service to Theology and Geology. It must be gratifying to Mr Miller to hear that his discovery had been assigned his own name by such... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1848 - 436 pages
...possess such powers of description as this man ; and, if it pleased Providence to spare his useful life, he, if any one, would certainly render the science...and popular, and do equal service to THEOLOGY and to Geology." Treating upon the Devonian formation, Mr. Richardson observes, that it has been " described... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Science - 1849 - 344 pages
...to possess such powers of description as this man; and if it pleased Providence to spare his useful life, he, if any one, would certainly render the science...popular, and do equal service to Theology and Geology. It must be gratifying to Mr Miller to hear that his discovery had been assigned his own name by such... | |
 | George Luxford, Edward Newman - Botany - 1849
...Buckland further observed, that if Providence were pleased to spare the useful life of Mr. Miller, " he, if any one, would certainly render the science...popular, and do equal service to Theology and Geology ;" positions which have been fully borne out by the character of Mr. Miller's subsequently published... | |
 | John Harris - Creation - 1850 - 322 pages
...to possess such powers of description as this man ; and if it pleased Providence to spare his useful life, he, if any one, would certainly render the science...popular, and do equal service to Theology and Geology. It must be gratifying to Mr. Miller to hear that his discovery had been assigned his own nnme by puch... | |
 | John Harris - Creation - 1850 - 324 pages
...possess ,,,ch powers of description as this man ; and if it pleassd Providence to spare hi, useful life, he, if any one, would certainly render the science...popular, and do equal service to theology and geology. It must be gratifying to Mr. Miller to hear thal hia discoT(irT had „„.„ .Migned his own name... | |
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