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" In the course of the first day's employment, I picked up a nodular mass of blue limestone, and laid it open by a stroke of the hammer. Wonderful to relate, it contained inside a beautifully finished piece of sculpture — one of the volutes apparently... "
The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Page 691
1844
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 108

1858 - 620 pages
...reference to this form alone, Miller speaks of it as it then not unnaturally appeared to him — ' a beautifully finished piece of sculpture — one of the ' volutes apparently of an Ionic capital.' A fellow workman told him of a spot on the neighbouring coast, where these and other stones 'like thunderbolts'...
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The Old Red Sandstone, Or, New Walks in an Old Field

Hugh Miller - 1842 - 358 pages
...facts contained in these few sentences were the patient gatherings of years. , In the course of'the first day's employment, I picked up a nodular mass...hammer. Wonderful to relate, it contained inside a beautifully-finished piece of sculpture, — one of the volutes apparently of an Ionic capital ; and...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 8

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1850 - 678 pages
...sure than human testimony itself. " In the course of my first day's employment, I picked up." he says, "a nodular mass of blue limestone, and laid it open...broken the shell and found the little dog lying within, could have surprised me more. Was there another such curiosity in the whole world ? I broke open a...
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The New Englander, Volume 8

1850 - 676 pages
...sure than human testimony itself. " In the course of my first day's employment, I picked up," he says, "a nodular mass of blue limestone, and laid it open...broken the shell and found the little dog lying within, could have surprised me more. Was there another such curiosity in the whole world ? I broke open a...
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The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old Field

Hugh Miller - 1851 - 352 pages
...in the dark, that the facts contained in these few sentences were the patient gatherings of years. In the course of the first day's employment, I picked...broken the shell and found the little dog lying within, could have surprised me more. Was there another such curiosity in the whole world ? I broke open a...
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The Old Red Sandstone

Hugh Miller - 1852 - 394 pages
...in the dark, that the facts contained in these few sentences were the patient gatherings of years. In the course of the first day's employment, I picked...hammer. Wonderful to relate, it contained inside a beautifully-finished piece of sculpture — one of the volutes apparently of an Ionic capital ; and...
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The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old Field

Hugh Miller - 1854 - 324 pages
...facts contained in these few sentences were the patient gatherings of years. In the course of the flrst day's employment, I picked up a nodular mass of blue...broken the shell and found the little dog lying within, could have surprised me more. Was there another such curiosity in the whole world ? I broke open a...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 2

Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...in the dark, that the facts contained in these few sentences, were the patient gatherings of years. In the course of the first day's employment, I picked...blue limestone, and laid it open by a stroke of the hatumcr. Wonderful to relate, it contained inside a beautifully finished piece of sculpture — one...
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The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old Field. To which is Appended a ...

Hugh Miller - 1858 - 470 pages
...in the dark, that the facts contained in these few sentences were the patient gatherings of years. In the course of the first day's employment, I picked...relate, it contained inside a beautifully finished piece of_scul£ture — one of the volutes apparently of an Ionic capital ; and not the far-famed walnut...
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The advanced prose and poetical reader, by A.W. Buchan

Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 pages
...in the dark, that the facts contained in these few sentences were the patient gatherings of years. In the course of the first day's employment, I picked...broken the shell and found the little dog lying within, could have surprised me more. Was there another such curiosity in the whole world ? I broke open a...
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