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... earth just named , he asks how seven different layers could be formed in less than fourteen thousand years . The chronology of Moses makes the world not half that old . The Englishman was jocular at this discovery ; and his admirers ...
... earth just named , he asks how seven different layers could be formed in less than fourteen thousand years . The chronology of Moses makes the world not half that old . The Englishman was jocular at this discovery ; and his admirers ...
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... earth between each one . And the famous Watson tells them , that if six different soils near Vesu- vius could be formed in seventeen hundred years , per- haps seven might be made elsewhere in five thousand years . Might we not suppose ...
... earth between each one . And the famous Watson tells them , that if six different soils near Vesu- vius could be formed in seventeen hundred years , per- haps seven might be made elsewhere in five thousand years . Might we not suppose ...
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... earth , and destroyed the race of men , & c . & c . When we re- member that the waters of the sky did days of Noah ; that Noah was the first of the post diluvian race , and thus without father ; that the rain- bow is interestingly ...
... earth , and destroyed the race of men , & c . & c . When we re- member that the waters of the sky did days of Noah ; that Noah was the first of the post diluvian race , and thus without father ; that the rain- bow is interestingly ...
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... earth beyond the dates of Revelation , multitudes have taken partial extracts from hearsay records ; and then , to prevent these frag- ments from agreeing with , or upholding the history they hate , have twisted them with labour and ...
... earth beyond the dates of Revelation , multitudes have taken partial extracts from hearsay records ; and then , to prevent these frag- ments from agreeing with , or upholding the history they hate , have twisted them with labour and ...
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... earth was in great danger from the intense heat of an unusual sun . It is true , that in attempting to account for this incident of peril and of wonder , the writer , as was his custom at all times , consulted only his imagination , and ...
... earth was in great danger from the intense heat of an unusual sun . It is true , that in attempting to account for this incident of peril and of wonder , the writer , as was his custom at all times , consulted only his imagination , and ...
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Page 274 - And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Page 269 - For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
Page 294 - For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, And as a root out of a dry ground. He hath no form nor comeliness; And when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Page 272 - If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
Page 273 - And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. 10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard ; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger : I am the LORD your God.
Page 51 - And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. 21 Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains...
Page 31 - Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Page 271 - If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down : for that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin : wherein shall he sleep ? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
Page 296 - And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence; neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Page 138 - Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.