But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss beneath, where all is fiery and yet dark,-a solitary hell, without suffering or sin,-we would do well to commit ourselves to the guidance of a living poet of the true faculty,-Thomas Aird and see with his eyes.
Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with its… - Hugh Miller
Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with its…
- Hugh Miller
It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men it dwindles and disappears, life fruit in th… - Hugh Miller
It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men it dwindles and disappears, life fruit in th…
The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to permit the existence of a sea,… - Hugh Miller
The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to permit the existence of a sea,…
It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. - Hugh Miller
It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.
The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God, whose hand is i… - Hugh Miller
The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God, whose hand is i…
The sky is full of tokens which speak to the intelligent. - Hugh Miller
The sky is full of tokens which speak to the intelligent.
Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study. - Hugh Miller
Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them. - Hugh Miller
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when read; and geology is simpl… - Hugh Miller
Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when read; and geology is simpl…
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