 | Tim Flannery - 2002 - 464 str.
...BEFORE MAN The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time . . . [and] we became sensible how much farther reason may sometimes go than imagination can venture tofottow. Playfair 1805, quoted in McAdam 1986: 1 1 1 CHAPTER 1 THE NEW LANDS To write a history of... | |
 | Victor Schmidt, William Harbert - 2003 - 448 str.
...the philosopher who was now unfolding to us the order and series of these wonderful events, we became sensible how much farther reason may sometimes go than imagination can venture to follow. Today, a bit more than 200 years later, these rocks have hardly changed at all since Hutton described... | |
 | James Buchan - 2009 - 468 str.
...the philosopher who was now unfolding to us the order and series of these wonderful events, we became sensible how much farther reason may sometimes go than imagination can venture to follow.69 As Playfair wrote, the implications of Mutton's geological discoveries 'were matter, not... | |
 | Stephen Baxter - 2004 - 264 str.
...the philosopher who was now unfolding to us the order and series of these wonderful events, we became sensible how much farther reason may sometimes go than imagination can venture to follow. Hutton had at last taught himself to read God's books, and the stories he could tell were wonderful... | |
 | Joseph E. Harmon, Alan G. Gross - 2007 - 353 str.
...philosopher [Hutton] who was now unfolding to us the order and series of these wonderful events, we became sensible how much farther reason may sometimes go than imagination can venture to follow. BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Metaphor in Evolutionary Biology Alfred Russel Wallace, 1858. "On the tendency... | |
 | 1888 - 634 str.
...the philosopher who was now unfolding to us the order and series of these wonderful events, we became sensible how much farther reason may sometimes go than imagination can venture to follow." In the summer of the same year (1788) Hutton made another geological tour. This was to the Isle of... | |
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The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time; and while we listened with earnestness and admiration to the philosopher who was now unfolding to us the order and series of these wonderful events, we became sensible how much farther... 
