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... ancient rocks , should be explained , if possible , by the changes which are taking place now in the most recent deposits in the soil of the field . And in the last forty years - since that great and sound idea has become rooted in the ...
... ancient rocks , should be explained , if possible , by the changes which are taking place now in the most recent deposits in the soil of the field . And in the last forty years - since that great and sound idea has become rooted in the ...
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... ancient rock down to great angular fragments of ironstone and coal . There , as elsewhere , the great majority of the pebbles have nothing to do with the rock on which the clay happens to lie , but have come , some of them , from places ...
... ancient rock down to great angular fragments of ironstone and coal . There , as elsewhere , the great majority of the pebbles have nothing to do with the rock on which the clay happens to lie , but have come , some of them , from places ...
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... in deeper water in the ancient ooze , wherever the ice- berg had left it in peace long enough for sea - animals to colonise and breed in it . But the general appear- ance of the dried sea - bottom would be a 56 [ II . TOWN GEOLOGY .
... in deeper water in the ancient ooze , wherever the ice- berg had left it in peace long enough for sea - animals to colonise and breed in it . But the general appear- ance of the dried sea - bottom would be a 56 [ II . TOWN GEOLOGY .
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... ancient hard rocks , which may be seen in so many parts of these islands and of the Continent . No water power could . have lifted those stones , and tossed them up high and dry on mountain ridges and promontories , upon rocks of a ...
... ancient hard rocks , which may be seen in so many parts of these islands and of the Continent . No water power could . have lifted those stones , and tossed them up high and dry on mountain ridges and promontories , upon rocks of a ...
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... ancient sea - beach , five - and- thirty feet thick , lying on great ice - scratched boulders , which again lie on the mountain slates . It was dis- covered by the late Mr. Trimmer , now , alas ! lost to Geology . Out of that beach ...
... ancient sea - beach , five - and- thirty feet thick , lying on great ice - scratched boulders , which again lie on the mountain slates . It was dis- covered by the late Mr. Trimmer , now , alas ! lost to Geology . Out of that beach ...
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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.