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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... strata of the earth's crust prove to have taken place , successively fell out ; that during these five periods all the plants and animals which had their existence on this earth , prior to the human epoch , were created , lived , and ...
... strata of the earth's crust prove to have taken place , successively fell out ; that during these five periods all the plants and animals which had their existence on this earth , prior to the human epoch , were created , lived , and ...
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... strata of the earth long after the rocks were formed , that the merest novice in cosmogony could not suppose them created in their present state . It follows , therefore , that a globe created all at once of earth and water could ...
... strata of the earth long after the rocks were formed , that the merest novice in cosmogony could not suppose them created in their present state . It follows , therefore , that a globe created all at once of earth and water could ...
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... strata . Now , if the world was created all at once out of nothing just as we find it , how comes it to pass ( to say nothing of the circum- stance of the rocks being divided into stratified and unstratified ) that the one set of rocks ...
... strata . Now , if the world was created all at once out of nothing just as we find it , how comes it to pass ( to say nothing of the circum- stance of the rocks being divided into stratified and unstratified ) that the one set of rocks ...
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... strata in which the fossils are entombed are of vast thickness , varying from six to ten miles , and have been divided first into three large groups - the paleozoic ( the oldest and lowest of the rocks which have fossils embedded in ...
... strata in which the fossils are entombed are of vast thickness , varying from six to ten miles , and have been divided first into three large groups - the paleozoic ( the oldest and lowest of the rocks which have fossils embedded in ...
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... strata . In the common limestone rocks entire shells are found in great abun- dance and in considerable variety ; and in the same rock some of the shells are petrified throughout ; of others a thin coating of the original shell with the ...
... strata . In the common limestone rocks entire shells are found in great abun- dance and in considerable variety ; and in the same rock some of the shells are petrified throughout ; of others a thin coating of the original shell with the ...
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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...