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... mass of the earth . That is , properly speaking , an astronomical question . If I may be allowed to liken this earth to a fruit , then astronomy will tell us - when it knows - how the fruit grew , and what is inside the fruit . Geology ...
... mass of the earth . That is , properly speaking , an astronomical question . If I may be allowed to liken this earth to a fruit , then astronomy will tell us - when it knows - how the fruit grew , and what is inside the fruit . Geology ...
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... mass . You know that . You know that every flood and freshet brings a fresh load , either of fine mud or of fine sand , or possibly some of it peaty matter out of distant hills . Here is one indisputable fact from which to start . Let ...
... mass . You know that . You know that every flood and freshet brings a fresh load , either of fine mud or of fine sand , or possibly some of it peaty matter out of distant hills . Here is one indisputable fact from which to start . Let ...
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... masses of masonry torn from their iron clampings during the gale of three winters since . Look steadily at those rolled blocks , those twisted stanchions , if they are there still ; and then ask your- selves - it will be fair reasoning ...
... masses of masonry torn from their iron clampings during the gale of three winters since . Look steadily at those rolled blocks , those twisted stanchions , if they are there still ; and then ask your- selves - it will be fair reasoning ...
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... mass of solid rock 20,000 feet thick ; thick enough , in fact , if it were there still , to make a range of mountains as high as the Andes . It is a provable and proven fact that vast tracts of the centre of poor old Ireland were once ...
... mass of solid rock 20,000 feet thick ; thick enough , in fact , if it were there still , to make a range of mountains as high as the Andes . It is a provable and proven fact that vast tracts of the centre of poor old Ireland were once ...
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... mass of animal matter , in one or two thin bands right across England , I know not . That the fossils have been rolled on a sea - beach is plain to those who look at them . But what caused so vast a destruction of animal life along that ...
... mass of animal matter , in one or two thin bands right across England , I know not . That the fossils have been rolled on a sea - beach is plain to those who look at them . But what caused so vast a destruction of animal life along that ...
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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.