| 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 - 612 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 ' In the case of the pterodactyle we have an extinct genus of the order Saurians,... | |
| 1830 - 550 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...the primeval lakes and rivers — air, sea, and land mnst have been strangely tenanted in those early periods of our infant world."— Mr. RC Taylor's Illustrations... | |
| 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, and1 gigantic crocodiles and tortoises crawling on the shores of the primeval lakes and rivers, —... | |
| John Murray - Archaeology - 1831 - 324 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...sea, and land, must have been strangely tenanted in 88 those early periods of our infant world." The ichthyosaurus deviates from the saurian or lizard.... | |
| 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 - 606 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 ' In the case of the pterodactyle we have an extinct genus of the order Saurians,... | |
| English literature - 1836 - 1184 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 4 In the case of the pterodactyle we have an extinct genus of the order Saurians,... | |
| 1841 - 488 pages
...pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies." ' With nocks of such like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous...shores of the primeval lakes and rivers, air, sea, and ¡and, must have been strangely tenanted in these early periods of our infant world. 1Л GH T. No.... | |
| William Buckland - Bible and geology - 1837 - 476 pages
...or wades, or creeps, or flies." Paradise Lost, Book If. 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 primaeval lakes and rivers, air, sea, and land must have been strangely... | |
| English essays - 1837 - 728 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 plesiosaurl crawling ou the shores of the primaeval lakes and rivers, air, sea, and land must have... | |
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