General View of the Geology of Scripture: In which the Unerring Truth of the Inspired Narrative of the Early Events in the World is Exhibited, and Distinctly Proved |
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... America , as com- monly supposed . — Instance of the Great Mastodon in England , Form of the Tusks of the Mastodon . - Erroneous Ideas on this Subject . 218 260 290 349 CHAPTER XIII . Human Fossil Remains . - Why they A 4 CONTENTS . vii.
... America , as com- monly supposed . — Instance of the Great Mastodon in England , Form of the Tusks of the Mastodon . - Erroneous Ideas on this Subject . 218 260 290 349 CHAPTER XIII . Human Fossil Remains . - Why they A 4 CONTENTS . vii.
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... Human Fossil Remains . - Why they cannot be so numerous as those of other Animals . -Lime - stone Caves and Fissures ... Human Fos- sils found at Guadaloupe ; also , at Durfort . - Great Fossil De- posit in Spain , containing Human Bones ...
... Human Fossil Remains . - Why they cannot be so numerous as those of other Animals . -Lime - stone Caves and Fissures ... Human Fos- sils found at Guadaloupe ; also , at Durfort . - Great Fossil De- posit in Spain , containing Human Bones ...
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... human " estimation , not even among the sceptical . 66 Of late years , accordingly , fact after fact has been gradually accumulating ; each tend- ing to temper the wild character of an hypo- thetical philosophy ; and every day produces ...
... human " estimation , not even among the sceptical . 66 Of late years , accordingly , fact after fact has been gradually accumulating ; each tend- ing to temper the wild character of an hypo- thetical philosophy ; and every day produces ...
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... human mind , lead us , step by step , from the consideration of objects themselves , to the GREAT FIRST CAUSE from whence all things have originally sprung . I have always felt an ardent desire to study , and endeavour to follow up ...
... human mind , lead us , step by step , from the consideration of objects themselves , to the GREAT FIRST CAUSE from whence all things have originally sprung . I have always felt an ardent desire to study , and endeavour to follow up ...
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... human mind so many un- questionable tokens of Himself , and so many traces of " Him are found throughout the whole creation , that no one in his senses can long remain ignorant of the truth . " There are some who pretend that nature ...
... human mind so many un- questionable tokens of Himself , and so many traces of " Him are found throughout the whole creation , that no one in his senses can long remain ignorant of the truth . " There are some who pretend that nature ...
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Page 136 - And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Page 138 - Saviour, 3 knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 'and saying, 'Where is the promise of his coming?' For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
Page 155 - The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
Page 149 - And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
Page 155 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Page 247 - While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
Page 428 - The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Page 62 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters, which were under the firmament from the waters, which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 256 - And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Page 148 - And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven ; and every thing that is in the earth shall die. But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons