 | 1844 - 784 lehte
...fear and anger implanted for its preservation, — ' the champions in distorted postures threat ;' — it presents us, too, with a wonderful record of violent...once, not on a few individuals, but on whole tribes. — pp. 52 — 53. Let us look at another of these curious fishes, the coccosteus, the figure of which... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1842 - 358 lehte
...fear and anger implanted for its prcserration, — " The champions in distorted postures threat ;" — it presents us, too, with a wonderful record of violent...falling at once, not on a few individuals, but on whole trihes. Next to the Ptericht/iys of the Lower Old Red I shall place its cotemporary the Coccosteus... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1844 - 766 lehte
...fear and anger implanted for its preservation, — ' the champions in distorted postures threat ;' — it presents us, too, with a wonderful record of violent...once, not on a few individuals, but on whole tribes. — pp. 52 — 53. Let us look at another of these curious fishes, the coccosteus, the figure of which... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1851 - 384 lehte
...mingled fear and anger implanted for its preservation — " The champions in distorted postures threat." It presents us, too, with a wonderful record of violent...once, not on a few individuals, but on whole tribes. Next to the Pterichthys of the Lower Old Red I shall place its contemporary the Coccosteus of Agassiz,... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1859 - 456 lehte
...mingled fear and anger implanted for its preservation — " The champions in distorted postures threat." It presents us, too, with a wonderful record of violent death falling at once, not on.a few individuals, but on whole tribes. Next to the Pterichthys of the Lower Old Red I shall place... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - 454 lehte
...the'mingled fear and anger implanted for its preservation — " The champions in distorted postures threat." It presents us, too, with a wonderful record of violent...once, not on a few individuals, but on whole tribes. Next to the Pterichthys of the Lower Old Red I shall place its contemporary the Coccosteus of Agassiz,... | |
 | John Louis Petit - 1869 - 98 lehte
...mingled fear and anger implanted for its preservation. ' The champions in distorted postures threat.' It presents us, too, with a wonderful record of violent...once, not on a few individuals, but on whole tribes." — The Old Red Sandstone. HUGH MILLER, p. 84. " At this period of our history some terrible catastrophe... | |
 | Edward Duke - 1881 - 296 lehte
...of danger and alarm. And it is a curious fact that, in this attitude, nine-tenths of the Pterichthys of the lower Old Red Sandstone are to be found.' '...once, not on a few individuals, but on whole tribes.' H In his Lectures on Geology he says, p. 206, ' It was the first remark of Agassiz when introduced... | |
 | George McCready Price - 1995 - 514 lehte
...parts of Scotland, and after saying that the condition in which these fossils are found presents us with " a wonderful record of violent death falling...once, not on a few individuals, but on whole tribes," he says that " some terrible catastrophe involved in sudden destruction the fish of an area at least... | |
 | 1930 - 464 lehte
...cjirious fact, to which I shall afterwards have occasion to advert, that in this attitude nine-tenths of the Pterichthes of the Lower Old Red Sandstone...once, not on a few individuals, but on whole tribes." And Price says in his Fundamentals of Geology : "But what other class of the animal kingdom will not... | |
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Pterichthyes of the Lower Old Red Sandstone are to be found. We read in the stone a singularly preserved story of the strong instinctive love of life, and of the mingled fear and anger implanted for its preservation — " The champions in distorted postures... 