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... mountain - ranges , continents , oceans , whole tribes and worlds of plants and animals . And yet it is not so much for the vastness and grandeur of those scenes of the distant past , to which the science of geology introduces us , that ...
... mountain - ranges , continents , oceans , whole tribes and worlds of plants and animals . And yet it is not so much for the vastness and grandeur of those scenes of the distant past , to which the science of geology introduces us , that ...
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... mountains , and con- tinents , by I know not what of fancied cataclysms and convulsions of nature ; explaining the unknown by the still more unknown , till some of their geological theories were no more rational , because no more ...
... mountains , and con- tinents , by I know not what of fancied cataclysms and convulsions of nature ; explaining the unknown by the still more unknown , till some of their geological theories were no more rational , because no more ...
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... mountain , look at the loose broken stones with which the top is coated , just underneath the turf . What has broken them up but frost ? Look again , as stronger proof , at the talus of broken stones - screes , as they call them in ...
... mountain , look at the loose broken stones with which the top is coated , just underneath the turf . What has broken them up but frost ? Look again , as stronger proof , at the talus of broken stones - screes , as they call them in ...
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... mountains and Scarborough , from rounded pebbles of most 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 ...
... mountains and Scarborough , from rounded pebbles of most 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 ...
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... mountains ) , 37 per cent . Silurian grits ( the common stones of the Lake mountains deposited by water ) , 43 per cent . Ironstone , 1 per cent . Carboniferous limestone , 5 per cent . Permian or Triassic sandstones , i.e. rocks imme ...
... mountains ) , 37 per cent . Silurian grits ( the common stones of the Lake mountains deposited by water ) , 43 per cent . Ironstone , 1 per cent . Carboniferous limestone , 5 per cent . Permian or Triassic sandstones , i.e. rocks imme ...
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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.