A Comparative Estimate of the Mineral and Mosaical GeologiesOgle, Duncan, and Company, 1822 - 460 pages |
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... origin and revolutions of all terrestrial matter , mineral , vegetable , and animal . To at- tain to the certainty of fact , in these important particulars , is to arrive at an universal principle of truth , diffusing light and ...
... origin and revolutions of all terrestrial matter , mineral , vegetable , and animal . To at- tain to the certainty of fact , in these important particulars , is to arrive at an universal principle of truth , diffusing light and ...
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... origin ; and can hardly be said to have existed , in a state approaching to maturity , for much more than half a century . This guide does not , indeed , pretend to oppose any record to that of the other ; but it aspires to esta- blish ...
... origin ; and can hardly be said to have existed , in a state approaching to maturity , for much more than half a century . This guide does not , indeed , pretend to oppose any record to that of the other ; but it aspires to esta- blish ...
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... origin , whereas the latter is of very great antiquity , it will be in pro- priety and order , that we should bring first to the test the quality of the new pretender . Let us therefore inquire- What is Mineral Geology ? CHAP . I. CHAP ...
... origin , whereas the latter is of very great antiquity , it will be in pro- priety and order , that we should bring first to the test the quality of the new pretender . Let us therefore inquire- What is Mineral Geology ? CHAP . I. CHAP ...
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... origin . " The principal object which geognosy has " in view , ( says the able writer from whom " I have just quoted * , ) is , " 1. The knowledge of the mineral masses , " or rather of the different groups or systems 66 of mineral ...
... origin . " The principal object which geognosy has " in view , ( says the able writer from whom " I have just quoted * , ) is , " 1. The knowledge of the mineral masses , " or rather of the different groups or systems 66 of mineral ...
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... origin of this science , as they are delivered by its professors , we shall find that they exactly answer to the preceding description . They relate , that the experience which had been ac- quired in a long course of mineralogical ...
... origin of this science , as they are delivered by its professors , we shall find that they exactly answer to the preceding description . They relate , that the experience which had been ac- quired in a long course of mineralogical ...
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66 CHAP action ancient animal and vegetable appear Arabian camel ascribe Assyria Bacon and Newton Bactrian camel bones camel chaos chaotic chemical CONCLUSION continued created creation Creator CUVIER D'AUBUISSON deluge diurnal motion divine earth effect entire epocha equally evidence existence exuvia fact fluid formed former globe granite heaven Hebrew immediate induction intelligence interpretation laws light LUCRETIUS marine matter ment mineral geology mineral masses mineralogy mode moral Mosaical geology Mosaical record Moses mountains nature Neptunian observe ocean operation origin ossification perceive perfect period perished phænomenon philosophy physical portion present principle produced question race racters real mode reason reformed philosophy relation rendered respect revolution rivers rocks Rosenmuller says secondary causes sense sensible phænomena soils solid species strata succession suppose surface terrestrial things tion true truth universal unphilosophical valleys vast VIII violent volcanic waters word
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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.