Let the hurricane tear up its thousand huge fragments ; yet what will that tell against the accumulated labour of myriads of architects at work night and day, month after month ? Thus do we see the soft and gelatinous body of a polypus, through the agency... The chemistry of creation - Page 492by Robert Ellis (F.L.S.) - 1850Full view - About this book
| Books - 1839 - 658 pages
...former, takes part in the contest. The organic forces separate the atoms of carbonate of lime one by one from the foaming breakers, and unite them into...tear up its thousand huge fragments; yet what will this tell against the accumulated labours of myriads of architects at work night and day, month after... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1840 - 500 pages
...former, takes part in the contest. The organic forces separate the atoms of carbonate of lime one by one from the foaming breakers, and unite them into a symmetrical structure; myriads of architects are at work night and day, month after month, and we see their soft and gelatinous... | |
| 1845 - 558 pages
...in the contest. The organic forces (coral animals) separate the atoms of carbonate of lime, one by one from the foaming breakers, and unite them into...symmetrical structure. Let the hurricane tear up its thousands of huge fragments, yet what will this tell against the accumulated labour of myriads of architects... | |
| William Benjamin Carpenter - Fishes - 1845 - 612 pages
...forces separate tho atoms of carbonate of lime one by one from the foaming breakers, and rear them up into a symmetrical structure. Let the hurricane tear up its thousand huge fragments; yet what will thus tell against the accumulated labour of myriads of architects at work day and night, month after... | |
| Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1846 - 716 pages
...antagonist, takes part in the contest. The organic forces separate the atoms of carbonate of lime, one by one, from the foaming breakers, and unite them into a symmetrical structure. Let the and the animal always appears languishing and sickly." hurricane tear up its thousand huge fragments... | |
| Robert Hermann Schomburgk - Barbados - 1848 - 780 pages
...construction those numerous islands which are scattered for thousands of miles over the space of the ocean1. "Let the hurricane tear up its thousand huge fragments,...myriads of architects at work night and day, month after month9 ? " The beauty and regular structure of some species of Astraea are very remarkable ; they are... | |
| William Benjamin Carpenter - Zoology - 1848 - 606 pages
...forces separate the atoms of carbonate of lime one by one from the foaming breakers, and rear them up into a symmetrical structure. Let the hurricane tear up its thousand huge fragments ; yet what will thus tell against the accumulated labour of myriads of architects at work day and night, month after... | |
| William Benjamin Carpenter - Zoology - 1848 - 656 pages
...what will thus tell against the accumulated labour of myriads of architects at work day and night, month after month. Thus do we see the soft and gelatinous body of a polypus, through the ageney of the vital laws, conquering the great mechanical power of the waves of... | |
| American literature - 1850 - 896 pages
...works of nature"' would have crumbled into nothing before the relentless fury of a disturbed ocean '? ''Let the hurricane tear up its thousand huge fragments, yet what will that tell against the accumulated labor of myriads of architects at work day and night, month after month?'' for here organic force is... | |
| Walter Lawry - Fiji - 1851 - 236 pages
...former takes part in the contest. The organic forces separate the atoms of carbonate of lime one by one from the foaming breakers, and unite them into...tear up its thousand huge fragments ; yet what will this tell against the accumulated labour of myriads of architects at work night and day, month after... | |
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