 | 1857 - 780 pages
...light of the sun P" " How can that be? " asked the doctor. "It is nothing else," said the engineer; It is light bottled up in the earth for tens of thousands...— light absorbed by plants and vegetables, being neeetsary for the condensation of carbon during the process of their growth, if it be not carbon in... | |
 | English literature - 1858 - 788 pages
...say to the light of the sun ?" — " How can that beJ — " It is nothing else." said the engineer; "it is light bottled up in the earth for tens of thousands...condensation of carbon during the process of their growth, if it be not carbon in another form; and now, after being buried in the earth for long ages in fields... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - Christianity - 1858 - 580 pages
...said Stephenson. " How can that be ?" asked the Doctor. " It is nothing else," the engineer replied; "it is light bottled up in the earth for tens of thousands...condensation of carbon during the process of their growth, if it be not carbon in another form ; and now, after being buried in the earth for long ages in fields... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Collection locomotives - 1857 - 576 pages
...of the sun ?" " How can that be ? " asked the doctor. " It is nothing else," said the engineer : " it is light bottled up in the earth for tens of thousands...condensation of carbon during the process of their growth, if it be not carbon in another form, — and now, after being buried in the earth for long ages in... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1857 - 550 pages
...of the sun ? " " How can that be ? " asked the doctor. " It is nothing else," said the engineer : " it is light bottled up in the earth for tens of thousands...condensation of carbon during the process of their growth, if it be not carbon in another form, — and now, after being buried in the earth for long ages in... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1858 - 432 pages
...of the sun?' ' How can that be ? ' asked the professor. ' It is nothing else,' said the engineer. ' It is light bottled up in the earth for tens of thousands...condensation of carbon during the process of their growth, if it be not carbon in another form ; and now, after being buried in the earth for long ages in fields... | |
 | Society of Friends - 1858 - 836 pages
...sun?' — 'How can that be?' asked the doctor. — ' It is nothing else,' said the engineer : ' it ia light bottled up in the earth for tens of thousands...condensation of carbon during the process of their growth, if it be not carbon in another form, — and now, after being buried in the earth for long ages in... | |
 | Samuel Lucas - Authors - 1859 - 326 pages
...light of the sun ?' ' How can that be ?' asked the doctor. ' It is nothing else,' said the engineer ; 'it is light bottled up in the earth for tens of thousands...condensation of carbon during the process of their growth, if it be not carbon in another form, — and now, after being buried in the earth for long ages in... | |
 | Graduated series - 1859 - 462 pages
...light of the sun?" "How can that be? " asked the Doctor... " It is nothing else," said the engineer ; " it is light bottled up in the earth for tens of thousands...condensation of carbon, during the process of their growth, if it be not carbon in another form ; and now, after being buried in the earth for long ages in fields... | |
 | James Hogg - Biography - 1859 - 346 pages
...the light of the sun 1 ' — ' How can that be ? ' — ' It is nothing else,' said the engineer ; ' it is light bottled up in the earth for tens of thousands...condensation of carbon during the process of their growth, if it be not carbon in another form ; and now, after being buried in the earth for long ages in fields... | |
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What do you say to the light of the sun?" "How can that be?" asked the doctor. " It is nothing else," said the engineer; "it is light bottled up in the earth for tens of thousands of years — light, absorbed by plants and vegetables, being necessary... 
