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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... Surface often erroneous . - True height of Mountains . - Depths of the Ocean . - Of Mines . — Of Volcanic Foci . - Eruptions of Mud containing Fish . - Volcanoes only in Secondary Formations.— True Scale on which to view the Earth ...
... Surface often erroneous . - True height of Mountains . - Depths of the Ocean . - Of Mines . — Of Volcanic Foci . - Eruptions of Mud containing Fish . - Volcanoes only in Secondary Formations.— True Scale on which to view the Earth ...
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... surface of our earth ; taking the Mosaical History for my guiding star , to be kept constantly in view throughout my course . A great part of my object will be attained , if I can succeed in bringing any one of those able minds , who ...
... surface of our earth ; taking the Mosaical History for my guiding star , to be kept constantly in view throughout my course . A great part of my object will be attained , if I can succeed in bringing any one of those able minds , who ...
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... surface , by the mere laws of nature , ( as even mercury becomes solid at a higher temperature than exists at the poles , ) how are we to suppose a chaotic AQUEOUS fluid , held together in empty space , and without the melting influence ...
... surface , by the mere laws of nature , ( as even mercury becomes solid at a higher temperature than exists at the poles , ) how are we to suppose a chaotic AQUEOUS fluid , held together in empty space , and without the melting influence ...
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... surface of the earth , upon which the theories of philosophy have been founded , * In the sixteenth century , the astronomer , John Kepler , of Wirtemburg , presented a work , full of wild theory , to the great Tycho Brahe , who , after ...
... surface of the earth , upon which the theories of philosophy have been founded , * In the sixteenth century , the astronomer , John Kepler , of Wirtemburg , presented a work , full of wild theory , to the great Tycho Brahe , who , after ...
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... surface of the earth , without the aid of any unusual or preternatural convulsion , as other Geologists have been to press into their service a constant repetition of deluges and disasters . He sets out upon the principle of Playfair ...
... surface of the earth , without the aid of any unusual or preternatural convulsion , as other Geologists have been to press into their service a constant repetition of deluges and disasters . He sets out upon the principle of Playfair ...
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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