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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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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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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...