Robert Dick: Baker, of Thurso, Geologist and BotanistHarper & Brothers, 1878 - 436 sider |
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Side 45 - Thy Father has written for thee." " Come, wander with me," she said, " Into regions yet untrod ; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God." And he wandered away and away With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him night and day The rhymes of the universe. And whenever the way seemed long, Or his heart began to fail, She would sing a more wonderful song, Or tell a more marvellous tale.
Side 284 - No, faith, not a jot ; but to follow him thither with modesty enough and likelihood to lead it : as thus : Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust ; the dust is earth ; of earth we make loam ; and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel...
Side 167 - Dar'st thou, Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point ? ' Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow : so indeed he did. The torrent...
Side 181 - The life of the former was almost a perpetual journey; and as he possessed the various talents of the soldier, the statesman, and the scholar, he gratified his curiosity in the discharge of his duty. Careless of the difference of seasons and of climates, he marched on foot, and bare-headed, over the snows of Caledonia, and the sultry plains of the Upper Egypt; nor was there a province of the empire which, in the course of his reign, was not honoured with the presence of the monarch.
Side 365 - A country lad is my degree, An' few there be that ken me, 0; But what care I how few they be ? I'm welcome aye to Nannie, O. My riches a's my penny-fee, An' I maun guide it cannie, O ; But warl's gear ne'er troubles me, My thoughts are a' my Nannie, O. Our auld guidman delights to view His sheep an...
Side 310 - London, (the act of God, the queen's enemies, fire, and all and every other dangers and accidents of the seas, rivers, and navigation, of whatever nature and kind soever, excepted,) unto order or to assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods at 51.
Side 231 - Star-Fishes, has^ said was never yet observed in the British seas. It may be of small moment to you, who, mayhap, know nothing of Holothurias: but it is a considerable thing to the Fauna of Britain, and a vast matter to a poor private of the...
Side 115 - Atlantic, has been scarped, scraped, furrowed and scoured by the action of ice." 411. And the conclusion of Geikie's Great Ice Age is this. "Upward of 200, 000 years ago the Earth, as we know from the calculations of atlronomer», was so placed in regard to the Sun that a series of physical changes was induced, which eventually resulted in conferring upon our atmosphere a most intensely severe climate.
Side 56 - We must let Dr. Smiles describe one or two phases of his life and character. The following is a picture of Dick as he appeared to the world of Thurso : — ' Many people about Thurso, who saw Dick coming into the town with his feet bedabbled with dirt and his jean trousers wet up to the knees, said that he would have been much better employed in attending to his bakery, than in wandering about the country in search of beetles, bumbees, ferns, and wild plants. ' But he never missed attending to his...
Side 86 - Pterlchthys, — he succeeded in finding specimens, in a state of better or worse keeping, of all the various ichthyolites which I had described as peculiar to the Lower Old Red Sandstone. He found, however, what I had not described, — the remains of apparently a very gigantic ichthyolite ; and, communicating with me through the medium of a common friend, he submitted to me, in the first instance, drawings of his new set of fossils ; and ultimately, as I could arrive at no satisfactory conclusion...