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Hugh Miller

Born

in Cromarty, Scotland

October 10, 1802

Died

December 24, 1856

Website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Miller

Genre

Science, Geology, Folklore

Influences

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Hugh Miller was a self-taught Scottish geologist and writer and folklorist.

Among his geological works are The Old Red Sandstone (1841), The Testimony of the Rocks (1856), and Sketch-book of Popular Geology. Of these books, perhaps The Old Red Sandstone was the best-known. The Old Red Sandstone is still a term used to collectively describe sedimentary rocks deposited as a result of the Caledonian orogeny in the late Silurian, Devonian and earliest part of the Carboniferous period.

Miller held that the Earth was of great age, and that it had been inhabited by many species which had come into being and gone extinct, and that these species were homologous.

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Average rating: 3.86 · 140 ratings · 17 reviews · 516 distinct works

	My Schools and Schoolmasters: or, The Story of my Education 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Testimony of the Rocks: or Geology in its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1857 — 125 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland; or, The Traditional History of Cromarty really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1835 — 92 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Old Red Sandstone: or New Walks in an Old Field 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1841 — 124 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Hugh Miller, John Davidson (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Footprints of the Creator: or, The Asterolepis of Stromness it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1849 — 91 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The drop out really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	First Impressions of England and Its People 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1846 — 110 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Noble Smuggler and Other Stories liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cruise of the Betsey: or A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides, with Rambles of a Geologist: or Ten Thousand Miles over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.”
― Hugh Miller

tags: life, problems

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“My schoolfellows were mostly stiff, illiterate lads, who, with a little bad Latin and worse Greek, plumed themselves mightily on their scholarship; and I had little inducement to form any intimacies among them; for, of all men, the ignorant scholar is the least amusing.”
― Hugh Miller, Tales and Sketches

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“I was directed by the coachman to by far the most splendid temperance coffee-house I had ever seen: but it seemed too fine a lodging-house for harbouring the more characteristic English and I had not crossed the Border to see cosmopolites...”
― Hugh Miller, First Impressions of England and its People

tags: coffee-house, england, english, temperance

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