... nearly as hard; to stand for hours with one's feet in the mud and with water dripping from the roof on one's head, in order to mark the position and guard against the loss of each single bone of a skeleton, and at length, after finding leisure, strength... The Medical Times and Gazette - Halaman 1621863Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1863 - 576 halaman
...chambers, there to superintend by torchlight, week after week and year after year, the workmen who were breaking through the stalagmitic crust as hard as...length, after finding leisure, strength, and courage for A!! these operations, to look forward, as the fruits of one's labour, to the publication of unwelcome... | |
| 1863 - 714 halaman
...remove, piece by piece, the underlying bonebreccia nearly as hard ; to stand for hours with one's feet a the mud, and with water dripping from the roof on...of each single bone of a skeleton ; and at length, iftei finding leisure, strength, and courage for all these opentiou, to look forward, as the fruits... | |
| John Laws Milton - 1864 - 668 halaman
...been nearly as hard to stand, as Schmerling was obliged to do, for hours with one's feet in the mud, with water dripping from the roof on one's head, in...against the loss of each single bone of a skeleton. Besides, when ho had toiled for so many long years with all this heroic devotion to the pursuit he... | |
| Georg Hartwig - 1871 - 570 halaman
...their labours he stood for hours with his feet in the mud, and with water dripping from the roof on his head, in order to mark the position and guard against the loss of each single bone which they brought to light, we can scarcely praise too highly his rare devotion to the cause of science.... | |
| Georg Hartwig - 1871 - 578 halaman
...their labours he stood for hours with his feet in the mud, and with water dripping from the roof on his head, in order to mark the position and guard against the loss of each single bone which they brought to light, we can scarcely praise too highly his rare devotion to the cause of science.... | |
| 1874 - 602 halaman
...chambers, there to superintend by torchlight, week after week, year after year, the workmen who were breaking through the stalagmitic crust as hard as...to the prepossessions of the scientific as well as the unscientific public ; — when these circumstances are taken into account, we need scarcely wonder,... | |
| Charles Rau - 1876 - 182 halaman
...hard. Thus he remained for hours with his feet in the mud and with water dripping from the roof on his head, in order to mark the position and guard against...each single bone of a skeleton. And at length, after having found leisure, strength, and courage for all these operations, he looked forward, as the fruits... | |
| John Patterson MacLean - 1877 - 176 halaman
...chambers, there to superintend by torchlight, week after week and year after year, the workmen who were breaking through the stalagmitic crust as hard as...operations, to look forward, as the fruits of one's labor, to the publication of unwelcome intelligence, opposed to the prepossessions of the scientific... | |
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