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... bed , or two books on a table -any two or more lifeless things , in fact , lie one on the other , then the lower one was most probably put there first , and the upper one laid down on the lower . Does that seem to you a truism ? Do I ...
... bed , or two books on a table -any two or more lifeless things , in fact , lie one on the other , then the lower one was most probably put there first , and the upper one laid down on the lower . Does that seem to you a truism ? Do I ...
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... beds of coal , would you not say - These coal - beds must have been here before the sandstones ? And if you found in those coal - beds dead leaves and stems of plants , would you not say - Those plants must 36 [ I. TOWN GEOLOGY .
... beds of coal , would you not say - These coal - beds must have been here before the sandstones ? And if you found in those coal - beds dead leaves and stems of plants , would you not say - Those plants must 36 [ I. TOWN GEOLOGY .
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... bed of earth with shells and bones ; under that a bed of peat ; under that one of blue silt ; under that a buried forest , with the trees upright and rooted ; under that another layer of blue silt full of roots and vegetable fibre ...
... bed of earth with shells and bones ; under that a bed of peat ; under that one of blue silt ; under that a buried forest , with the trees upright and rooted ; under that another layer of blue silt full of roots and vegetable fibre ...
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... , as far as I am aware , no such pebbles there . The gravels round you will be made up entirely of rolled chalk flints , and bits of beds immediately above or below the chalk . The blocks of THE PEBBLES IN THE STREET.
... , as far as I am aware , no such pebbles there . The gravels round you will be made up entirely of rolled chalk flints , and bits of beds immediately above or below the chalk . The blocks of THE PEBBLES IN THE STREET.
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... beds above the chalk . Now if , seeing such pebbles about your town , you inquire , like a sensible person who wishes to under- stand something of the spot on which he lives , whence they come , you will be shown either a gravel - pit ...
... beds above the chalk . Now if , seeing such pebbles about your town , you inquire , like a sensible person who wishes to under- stand something of the spot on which he lives , whence they come , you will be shown either a gravel - pit ...
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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.