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Pagina 37 - The nummulitic formation, with its characteristic fossils, plays a far more conspicuous part than any other tertiary group in the solid framework of the earth's crust, whether in Europe, Asia, or Africa. It often attains a thickness of many thousand feet, and extends from the Alps to the Carpathians, and is in full force in the north of Africa, as, for example, in Algeria and Morocco. It has also been traced from Egypt, where it was largely quarried of old for the building of the Pyramids, into Asia...
Pagina 345 - Ha, you gods ! why this ? what this, you gods ? Why, this. Will lug your priests and servants from your sides, Pluck stout men's pillows from below their heads : This yellow slave Will knit and break religions ; bless the accursed ; Make the hoar leprosy adored ; place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench...
Pagina 347 - In his realm there is hatred — secret hatred; there is disgust — unspoken disgust ; there is treachery — family treachery : there is vice — deep, deadly, domestic vice. In his dominions children grow unloving between parents who have never loved ; infants are nursed on deception from their very birth ; they are reared in an atmosphere corrupt with lies.
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Pagina 34 - But every where the most wonderful varieties of stalactites and crystals met our admiring view. At one time we saw the guides lighting up some distant gallery far above our heads, which had all the appearance of verandahs adorned with Gothic tracery. At another, we came into what seemed the long-drawn aisles of a Gothic cathedral, brilliantly illuminated.
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