They were, I doubt not, happy enough in their dark stalls, because they were horses, and had plenty to eat; and I… — Hugh Miller Dark Copy Share Image
The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do… — Hugh Miller Age Copy Share Image
It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men it dwindles and… — Hugh Miller Apples Copy Share Image
But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss… — Hugh Miller Abyss Copy Share Image
Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild… — Hugh Miller Lessons Copy Share Image
The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to… — Hugh Miller Agency Copy Share Image
It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. — Hugh Miller Circumstances Copy Share Image
Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below,… — Hugh Miller Abyss Copy Share Image
The geologist, in those tables of stone which form his records, finds no examples of dynasties once passed away again returning. There… — Hugh Miller Dynasty Copy Share Image
But, in truth, the existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The footprint on the sand… — Hugh Miller Altered Copy Share Image
Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of… — Hugh Miller Goodness Copy Share Image
But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though… — Hugh Miller Advice Copy Share Image
The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will… — Hugh Miller Atheism Copy Share Image
The development doctrines are doing much harm on both sides of the Atlantic, especially among intelligent mechanics, and a class of young… — Hugh Miller Amount Copy Share Image
Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial,… — Hugh Miller Broken Copy Share Image
Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in… — Hugh Miller Accounts Copy Share Image
That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale… — Hugh Miller Bones Copy Share Image
Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when… — Hugh Miller Domain Copy Share Image
All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no… — Hugh Miller Development Copy Share Image
Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an… — Hugh Miller Buried Copy Share Image
No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They… — Hugh Miller Alternatives Copy Share Image
The existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The foot-print in the sand-to refer to his… — Hugh Miller Behinds Copy Share Image
