The creative week: a secular exposition of the Mosaic record of Creation [the Book of Genesis] by the author of 'Commentaries on the Georgics of Virgil' and other works1856 |
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... heat and acrimony . Before proceeding to the work of exposition in con- nection with these heterogeneous views and dogmas , I shall here , in addition to what has been already said , throw out a few preliminary remarks respecting the ...
... heat and acrimony . Before proceeding to the work of exposition in con- nection with these heterogeneous views and dogmas , I shall here , in addition to what has been already said , throw out a few preliminary remarks respecting the ...
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... heat of the sun on the first and fourth days , and the removal of the flood on the third day , are stupendous miracles produced by the wondrous fiat of Omnipotence ; still they are not crea- tions of the same high nature as the ...
... heat of the sun on the first and fourth days , and the removal of the flood on the third day , are stupendous miracles produced by the wondrous fiat of Omnipotence ; still they are not crea- tions of the same high nature as the ...
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... heat and radiance from the sun , would not give her light ; not a star would be visible from this earth ; in fine , there was no heaven because there was no atmosphere . The creation of the atmo- sphere changed the whole face of things ...
... heat and radiance from the sun , would not give her light ; not a star would be visible from this earth ; in fine , there was no heaven because there was no atmosphere . The creation of the atmo- sphere changed the whole face of things ...
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... heat still higher , would be resolved into vapour ; and , by other agencies , might be resolved into invisible gases ; and in the labora- tory of the chemist all kinds of matter easily pass through every grade of transmutation from the ...
... heat still higher , would be resolved into vapour ; and , by other agencies , might be resolved into invisible gases ; and in the labora- tory of the chemist all kinds of matter easily pass through every grade of transmutation from the ...
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... heat of the sun , vapour was gradually formed at the surface ; but , for want of an atmosphere , the vapour was not carried up , and dispersed . Day after day this visible mist continued to accumulate on the deep ; and as it became ...
... heat of the sun , vapour was gradually formed at the surface ; but , for want of an atmosphere , the vapour was not carried up , and dispersed . Day after day this visible mist continued to accumulate on the deep ; and as it became ...
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Adam Adam and Eve appear Asia atmosphere beasts beginning Bible birds brought cattle cause chaos chapter cloud connection crea created creative week Creator creeping things darkness deep divine Dr Smith dry land earth epoch evidence ex nihilo existence facts of geology fiat firmament fish flood fogs fossils fruit garden garden of Eden gaseous Genesis geological periods geologists give globe grass Havilah heat heaven Hebrew herbs human period inspired John Herschel kind land animals language light living long period Lord mankind matter means Miller miraculous morning Mosaic Record Moses narrative natural days never paleozoic petrifactions phrase plants and animals posteriori present priori prove reader Record of creation reptiles respecting river scene of creation Scriptures seed six days sixth day solid stars strata tertiary period third day thousand tion tree Universal Deluge verse visible waters whilst whole words
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Page 361 - Let people serve thee, And nations bow down to thee: Be lord over thy brethren, And let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: Cursed be every one that curseth thee, And blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Page 383 - And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark : and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged...
Page 197 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 321 - 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 266 - 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.
Page 269 - He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Page 200 - God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
Page 259 - Let the earth Put forth the verdant grass, herb yielding seed, And fruit-tree yielding fruit after her kind; Whose seed is in herself upon the earth.
Page 266 - 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 318 - Their downy breast ; the swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet...