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... north of Scotland as far down as Essex on the east , or as far down as Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton ( at least ) on the west , you will still find these pebbles , but fewer and smaller as you go south . It matters not what the rocks and ...
... north of Scotland as far down as Essex on the east , or as far down as Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton ( at least ) on the west , you will still find these pebbles , but fewer and smaller as you go south . It matters not what the rocks and ...
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... north of Liverpool ? I think your common sense will tell you that these pebbles are not mere concretions ; that is , formed out of the substance of the clay after it was deposited . The least knowledge of mineralogy would prove that ...
... north of Liverpool ? I think your common sense will tell you that these pebbles are not mere concretions ; that is , formed out of the substance of the clay after it was deposited . The least knowledge of mineralogy would prove that ...
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... north and south poles ; at work , too , on every high mountain range in the world , and therefore a very common natural force ; and suppose that this force would explain all the facts , namely— How the stones got here ; How they were ...
... north and south poles ; at work , too , on every high mountain range in the world , and therefore a very common natural force ; and suppose that this force would explain all the facts , namely— How the stones got here ; How they were ...
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... North . A very illustrious Scandinavian explorer , visiting Edinburgh , declared , as soon as he saw the sections of boulder - clay exhibited near that city , that this was the very substance which he saw forming in the Spitzbergen ice ...
... North . A very illustrious Scandinavian explorer , visiting Edinburgh , declared , as soon as he saw the sections of boulder - clay exhibited near that city , that this was the very substance which he saw forming in the Spitzbergen ice ...
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... North were once under an icy sea , ought we not to find sea - shells in their sands and clays ? Not abundantly , of course . We can understand that the sea - animals would be too rapidly covered up in mud , and too much disturbed by ...
... North were once under an icy sea , ought we not to find sea - shells in their sands and clays ? Not abundantly , of course . We can understand that the sea - animals would be too rapidly covered up in mud , and too much disturbed by ...
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Página 284 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Página 318 - While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
Página 9 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Página 17 - Iron sharpeneth iron ; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Página 323 - My substance, was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes, did see my substance, yet being imperfect ; and, in thy book, all my members, were written, which, in continuance, were fashioned, when, as yet, there was none of them.
Página 213 - As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself...
Página 253 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Página 283 - Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Página 305 - For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things which are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.
Página 285 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.