The Creative Week: Being a Secular Exposition of the Mosaic Record of Creation. By the Author of “Commentaries on the Georgics of Virgil” and Other WorksMaclachlan & Stewart, 1856 - 402 pages |
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... rivers and friths ; but it would , notwithstanding , be in a thousand respects as different from the world in which we live as it is possible to conceive . Stratified rocks are so evidently the result of deposition and pressure , and ...
... rivers and friths ; but it would , notwithstanding , be in a thousand respects as different from the world in which we live as it is possible to conceive . Stratified rocks are so evidently the result of deposition and pressure , and ...
Page 124
... rivers , marshes , & c . , in the other quarters of the earth , and darkness everywhere prevail on the surface in proportion to the depth and density of the fogs resting upon it . And what can be more simple or more natural than the ...
... rivers , marshes , & c . , in the other quarters of the earth , and darkness everywhere prevail on the surface in proportion to the depth and density of the fogs resting upon it . And what can be more simple or more natural than the ...
Page 178
... rivers , fountains , & c .; the wa- ters above are clouds containing rain , snow , hail ; also dew , fogs , and minute watery particles in the at- mosphere . But , before the atmosphere was made on the second day , these two kinds of ...
... rivers , fountains , & c .; the wa- ters above are clouds containing rain , snow , hail ; also dew , fogs , and minute watery particles in the at- mosphere . But , before the atmosphere was made on the second day , these two kinds of ...
Page 180
... rivers , fountains , & c . All the watery stores above the firmament or floating at large in the atmosphere , are derived from the globe itself or the waters below ; and are placed on high for a great variety of highly useful purposes ...
... rivers , fountains , & c . All the watery stores above the firmament or floating at large in the atmosphere , are derived from the globe itself or the waters below ; and are placed on high for a great variety of highly useful purposes ...
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... river which ran through , and watered , the garden : Ver . 7. " And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground , and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life ; and man became a living soul . " Ver . 8. " And the Lord God ...
... river which ran through , and watered , the garden : Ver . 7. " And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground , and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life ; and man became a living soul . " Ver . 8. " And the Lord God ...
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