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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... things that happened long before the commencement of the human period , but is an introduction or preface pointing forward to the things to be immediately described , and moreover contains a brief summary of the six days , and the six ...
... things that happened long before the commencement of the human period , but is an introduction or preface pointing forward to the things to be immediately described , and moreover contains a brief summary of the six days , and the six ...
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Creative week. all things contained in them , during these six days ; " and that these days , as all but the a ... thing in the creative week , we may term them the ex nihilo men . Respectable clergymen of various denomi- nations belong ...
Creative week. all things contained in them , during these six days ; " and that these days , as all but the a ... thing in the creative week , we may term them the ex nihilo men . Respectable clergymen of various denomi- nations belong ...
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... things connected with the past history of our globe which he furnishes us with no means of discovering , the Doctor ought to know that the word " earth " is totally inapplicable to mat- ter in any of these states ; and also , that our ...
... things connected with the past history of our globe which he furnishes us with no means of discovering , the Doctor ought to know that the word " earth " is totally inapplicable to mat- ter in any of these states ; and also , that our ...
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... things done , and to the aspect which they presented in their finished state . Before the work of creation began , no heaven encompassed the globe ; there was then no blue sky ; no clouds lighted up by the sun and the moon ; the sun ...
... things done , and to the aspect which they presented in their finished state . Before the work of creation began , no heaven encompassed the globe ; there was then no blue sky ; no clouds lighted up by the sun and the moon ; the sun ...
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... things man has not been able to dis- cover the purposes at all ; yet the ardour with which they are studied shows the belief that they are made in wisdom . The power displayed in the works of na- ture is obvious to common observation ...
... things man has not been able to dis- cover the purposes at all ; yet the ardour with which they are studied shows the belief that they are made in wisdom . The power displayed in the works of na- ture is obvious to common observation ...
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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...