 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
 | Missions, British - 1851 - 282 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... | |
 | Walter Lawry - Fiji - 1851 - 246 pages
...a symmetrical structure. Let the hurricane tear up its thousand huge fragments ; yet what will this tell against the accumulated labour of myriads of...and day, month after month ? Thus do we see the soft gelatinous body of a polypus, through the agency of the vital laws, conquering the great mechanical... | |
 | William Bellamy (headmaster of Norwich diocesan model sch.) - Arithmetic - 1853 - 286 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 gelatinons... | |
 | 1855 - 590 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... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1856 - 596 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... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - Zoology - 1858 - 644 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... | |
 | Home tutor - 1862 - 532 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 day and night, month after month, and we see their soft and gelatinous... | |
 | David Ames Wells - Geology - 1864 - 348 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 day and night, month. after month, and we see their soft and gelatinous... | |
 | David Ames Wells - 1865 - 348 pages
...former, takes part in the contest. The organic forces separata 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 day and night, month. after month, and we see their soft and gelatinous... | |
 | George French Angas - Polynesia - 1866 - 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 year after year, and we see... | |
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