A Comparative Estimate of the Mineral and Mosaical GeologiesOgle, Duncan, and Company, 1822 - 460 pages |
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... reason assumed to be of a more ancient date : and from hence all the mineral matter of this globe has been distributed scientifically into two principal 1 CHAP . I. divisions , entitled primary and secondary ; 2 A COMPARATIVE ESTIMATE OF ...
... reason assumed to be of a more ancient date : and from hence all the mineral matter of this globe has been distributed scientifically into two principal 1 CHAP . I. divisions , entitled primary and secondary ; 2 A COMPARATIVE ESTIMATE OF ...
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... and there are few subjects on which the force of this maxim falls more heavily than on this . 66 In this dilemma , there is only one course CHAP . I. which wisdom will counsel , or reason 6 A COMPARATIVE ESTIMATE OF THE.
... and there are few subjects on which the force of this maxim falls more heavily than on this . 66 In this dilemma , there is only one course CHAP . I. which wisdom will counsel , or reason 6 A COMPARATIVE ESTIMATE OF THE.
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Granville Penn. CHAP . I. which wisdom will counsel , or reason sanction ; PART I. and that is , to bring the pretensions of the two opponents fairly to an issue , by applying them both to some common and agreed test , by the decision of ...
Granville Penn. CHAP . I. which wisdom will counsel , or reason sanction ; PART I. and that is , to bring the pretensions of the two opponents fairly to an issue , by applying them both to some common and agreed test , by the decision of ...
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... reason weighs on its side , must be equally ready to surrender the mineral geology altogether to the Mosaical , provided that the latter should be found , after a trial of their respective authorities by some common conventional ...
... reason weighs on its side , must be equally ready to surrender the mineral geology altogether to the Mosaical , provided that the latter should be found , after a trial of their respective authorities by some common conventional ...
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... reason demand , the cer- tainty of the two past facts in question ? To this doubt it thus replies : that it is com- petent to determine these two points of fact , and with the evidence which reason and phi- losophy demand ; that " the ...
... reason demand , the cer- tainty of the two past facts in question ? To this doubt it thus replies : that it is com- petent to determine these two points of fact , and with the evidence which reason and phi- losophy demand ; that " the ...
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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.