A Comparative Estimate of the Mineral and Mosaical GeologiesOgle, Duncan, and Company, 1822 - 460 pages |
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... animal and vegetable , involved and deeply imbedded in other of its materials , which are soft , or which must have been so at the time when those foreign sub- stances were imbedded within them . Monu- ments , so wonderful and so ...
... animal and vegetable , involved and deeply imbedded in other of its materials , which are soft , or which must have been so at the time when those foreign sub- stances were imbedded within them . Monu- ments , so wonderful and so ...
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... animal and vege- table life ; and of the occupation of our present earth by the waters of the sea . These several characters , unequivocally marked , and of late years observed with peculiar ardour and appli- cation , have excited the ...
... animal and vege- table life ; and of the occupation of our present earth by the waters of the sea . These several characters , unequivocally marked , and of late years observed with peculiar ardour and appli- cation , have excited the ...
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... the planetary system , ( said he ) must be the effect " of choice ; and so must the uniformity in the bodies of animals ; these , and their instincts , " 66 PART I. CHAP . V. 66 " can be the MINERAL AND MOSAICAL GEOLOGIES . 51.
... the planetary system , ( said he ) must be the effect " of choice ; and so must the uniformity in the bodies of animals ; these , and their instincts , " 66 PART I. CHAP . V. 66 " can be the MINERAL AND MOSAICAL GEOLOGIES . 51.
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... animal and vegetable matter . Newton's rules of philoso- phizing require , that we should refer to the same common ... animals which it is to support . The two latter exist with relation to the earth , PART I —— CHAP . VI . CHAP . VI ...
... animal and vegetable matter . Newton's rules of philoso- phizing require , that we should refer to the same common ... animals which it is to support . The two latter exist with relation to the earth , PART I —— CHAP . VI . CHAP . VI ...
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... animal system , and which we call one of the laws of animal matter ; but we are now concerned exclusively with the first , created , ungenerated man , and with his bone ; from the period of whose first form- ! CHESELDEN'S Osteographia ...
... animal system , and which we call one of the laws of animal matter ; but we are now concerned exclusively with the first , created , ungenerated man , and with his bone ; from the period of whose first form- ! CHESELDEN'S Osteographia ...
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Page 131 - When he prepared the heavens, I was there : when He set a compass upon the face of the depth : when He established the clouds above: when He strengthened the fountains of the deep : when He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not pass His commandment; when He appointed the foundations of the earth : then I was by Him as one brought up with Him; and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before him: rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth; and my delights were with the sons...
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 219 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 220 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 248 - And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth ; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Page 231 - Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Page 214 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying : Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Page 429 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Page 176 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Page 176 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.