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... leaves . Would not common sense tell you that the leaves were there before the sand above them ? Then , perhaps , to a layer of mud again . Would not common sense tell you that the mud was there before the leaves ? And so on down to the ...
... leaves . Would not common sense tell you that the leaves were there before the sand above them ? Then , perhaps , to a layer of mud again . Would not common sense tell you that the mud was there before the leaves ? And so on down to the ...
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... leaves in the pond were ? If you then came to a layer of limestone , would you not say the same ? And if you found that limestone full of shells and corals , dead , but many of them quite perfect , some of the corals plainly in the very ...
... leaves in the pond were ? If you then came to a layer of limestone , would you not say the same ? And if you found that limestone full of shells and corals , dead , but many of them quite perfect , some of the corals plainly in the very ...
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... leaves up , through Davis's Straits . And in any case we must allow that the hills of Disco Island were then the bottom of a sea : or how would the leaves have been deposited in them at all ? So much for the change of climate and land ...
... leaves up , through Davis's Straits . And in any case we must allow that the hills of Disco Island were then the bottom of a sea : or how would the leaves have been deposited in them at all ? So much for the change of climate and land ...
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... leaves of trees . Proof enough , one would say , that the chalk had been raised till part of it at least became dry land , and carried vegetation . And yet we have not done . There is another world to tell of yet . For these beds ...
... leaves of trees . Proof enough , one would say , that the chalk had been raised till part of it at least became dry land , and carried vegetation . And yet we have not done . There is another world to tell of yet . For these beds ...
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... leaves and stems of ancient plants and trees - a startling state- ment , and one which I do not wish you to take entirely on trust . I shall therefore spend a few pages in showing you how this fact - for fact it is - was dis- covered ...
... leaves and stems of ancient plants and trees - a startling state- ment , and one which I do not wish you to take entirely on trust . I shall therefore spend a few pages in showing you how this fact - for fact it is - was dis- covered ...
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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.