A New System of Geology, in which the Great Revolutions of the Earth and Animated Nature, are Reconciled at Once to Modern Science and Sacred HistoryLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1829 - 621 páginas |
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Página x
... According to Epicurus , those atoms which were lightest , mounted up and formed the air , the heavens , and the stars ; whilst the more sluggish subsided , and formed the earth on which the human congeries of atoms move about . That men ...
... According to Epicurus , those atoms which were lightest , mounted up and formed the air , the heavens , and the stars ; whilst the more sluggish subsided , and formed the earth on which the human congeries of atoms move about . That men ...
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... According to what was established above , none of the appearances in the mineral kingdom indicate more than a partial fluidity in any former condition of the earth . The present strata , made up as they are of the ruins of former strata ...
... According to what was established above , none of the appearances in the mineral kingdom indicate more than a partial fluidity in any former condition of the earth . The present strata , made up as they are of the ruins of former strata ...
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... according to Hut- ton , shows no trace of a beginning , or of an end ; but has been the theatre of an indefinite series of transformations in time past , and will continue to be so in time to come . The mountains of a former earth were ...
... according to Hut- ton , shows no trace of a beginning , or of an end ; but has been the theatre of an indefinite series of transformations in time past , and will continue to be so in time to come . The mountains of a former earth were ...
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... according to the intention with which it is wielded . It gives force and permanence to despotism , whether of the many , or the few . There is no doubt another and a better sense in which knowledge may be taken , but one too seldom ...
... according to the intention with which it is wielded . It gives force and permanence to despotism , whether of the many , or the few . There is no doubt another and a better sense in which knowledge may be taken , but one too seldom ...
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... according as they are considered to be the offspring merely of certain deve- loping forces miscalled Nature , or as the creation and ordi- nances of the one living and true God . The first plan of study sedulously conceals or even seeks ...
... according as they are considered to be the offspring merely of certain deve- loping forces miscalled Nature , or as the creation and ordi- nances of the one living and true God . The first plan of study sedulously conceals or even seeks ...
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Página 469 - And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Página 596 - This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Página 467 - If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven ; whereof I Paul am made a minister...
Página xviii - Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy?
Página 598 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Página 79 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Página 594 - And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me ; for the earth is filled with violence through them ; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Página 612 - And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
Página 50 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters that were above the firmament: and it was so.
Página 597 - And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.