| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 608 pages
...pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous...been strangely tenanted in these early periods of our infant world Dr. Buckland next brings in review before us, those gigantic terrestrial lizards,... | |
| Natural history - 1830 - 596 pages
...bones in its body constructed after the manner of those of reptiles. With flocks of such like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous...Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri swarming in the ocean, and 1 gigantic crocodiles and tortoises crawling on the shores of the primeval lakes and rivers, — air,... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1836 - 956 pages
...pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flics." With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous ichthyosauri and plesiosriuri swarming in the ocean, and gigantic crocodiles and turto' -es crawling on the shores of... | |
| William Buckland - Bible and geology - 1837 - 476 pages
...or wades, or creeps, or flies.' Paradise Lost, Book II. line 947. With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous...been strangely tenanted in these early periods of our infant world."* As the most obvious feature of these fossil reptiles is the presence of organs... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1837 - 756 pages
...swarmed on the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. With flocks of such like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous ichthyosauri and plesiosauri crawling on the shores of the primmval lakes and rivers, air, sea, and land must have been strangely... | |
| Edward Hitchcock - Fossils - 1840 - 354 pages
...wades, or creeps, or flics." Paradise Lost, Book 2. Line 947. " With flocks of suck-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous...been strangely tenanted in these early periods of our infant world." Bridgewatef Treatise Vol. 1. p. 224. Crocodiles and Tortoises. Dtsirip. Of twelve... | |
| William Buckland - Bible and geology - 1841 - 492 pages
...or wades, or creeps, or flies.' Paradise Lost, Book II. line 947. With flocks of such like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous...been strangely tenanted in these early periods of our infant world."* As the most obvious feature of these fossil reptiles is the presence of organs... | |
| Edward Hitchcock - Geology - 1841 - 554 pages
...wades, or creeps, or flies." Paradise Lost, Book 2. line 947. " With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous...been strangely tenanted in these early periods of our infant world." Bridgewuter Treatise, Vol. 1. p. 224. Crocodiles and Tortoises Descr. Of twelve... | |
| Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1841 - 528 pages
...мну. Au«! awiras, or sinks, or wadcs. or ere«!*, or flies." With flocks of such-like creatures Hying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous Ichthyosauri...the shores of the primeval lakes and rivers, air, -•?i, and land must have been strangely tenanted in these early periods of our infant world.' (Geol.... | |
| Edward Hitchcock - Geology - 1842 - 366 pages
...creeps, or flies. " The Fiend, Paradise Lost, Book 2. line 947. " With flocks of such-like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous...been strangely tenanted in these early periods of our infant world." Bridgewater Treatise, Vol. 1.p. 224. Crocodiles and Tortoises. Descr. Of twelve... | |
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