| Russell Lant Carpenter - 1880 - 426 pages
...sea-shore without picking up shells ; or what lady ever spurned them as ornaments of her parlour ? Shells are at once the attraction of the untutored...on the sands of time ' in the history of our globe. The astronomer wandering through boundless space with the grandest researches of his intellect, and... | |
| India - 1881 - 838 pages
...the seashore without picking up shells, or what lady ever spurned them as ornaments of her ;parlour ? Shells are at once the attraction of the untutored...geologist. They adorn the sands of seagirt isles and conti• nents now, and they form the earliest 'footprints on the sands of time ' in the history of... | |
| India - 1881 - 764 pages
...the seashore without picking up shells, or what lady ever spurned them as ornaments of her parlour ? Shells are at once the attraction of the untutored...on the sands of time ' in the history of our globe. The astronomer, wandering through boundless space with the grandest researches of his intellect and... | |
| United States National Museum - Science - 1889 - 884 pages
...the sea shore without picking up shells; or what lady ever spurned them as ornaments of her parlor f Shells are at once the attraction of the untutored...of seagirt isles and continents now, and they form tbe earliest 'footprints on the saiiils of time' in the history of our globe. The astronomer wandering... | |
| Smithsonian Institution - 1889 - 870 pages
...of the Nautilus? What child ever went to the sea-shore without picking up shells; or what lady over spurned them as ornaments of her parlor? Shells are...refined artist, the wonder of the philosophic zoologist, aud the most valued treasures of the geologist. They adorn the sands of seagirt isles and continents... | |
| Mary Earle Hardy - 1900 - 250 pages
...muslin on either side to prevent their adhering to the paper of the press. THE MERMAID'S TEA SERVICE. Shells are at once the attraction of the untutored...artist, the wonder of the philosophic zoologist, and most valued treasure of the geologist. They adorn the sands of the sea-girt isles and continents now;... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1889 - 870 pages
...and Helmets, or wondered at the many chambers of the Nautilus? What child ever went to the sea shore without picking up shells ; or what lady ever spurned...artist, the wonder of the philosophic zoologist, and the moat valued treasures of the geologist. They adorn the sands of seagirt isles and continents now, and... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1861 - 460 pages
...and Helmets, or wondered at the many chambers of the Nautilus? What child ever went to the sea shore without picking up shells; or what lady ever spurned...continents now; and they form the earliest "footprints of the sands of time" in the history of our globe. The astronomer, wandering through boundless space... | |
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