The Quarterly Review, Volume 21William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1819 |
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... once the most elevated and the most depressed among the strata of the globe , contain no organic remains whatever , but are also dislocated and disordered in a degree not inferior to that which prevails in the secondary and other strata ...
... once the most elevated and the most depressed among the strata of the globe , contain no organic remains whatever , but are also dislocated and disordered in a degree not inferior to that which prevails in the secondary and other strata ...
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... once , that on the account of the two first days of the creation , an awful obscurity rests which can never be dissipated by man ? Yet it is evident , that by a certain class of geologists , and , as appears from one pretty broad hint ...
... once , that on the account of the two first days of the creation , an awful obscurity rests which can never be dissipated by man ? Yet it is evident , that by a certain class of geologists , and , as appears from one pretty broad hint ...
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... Once more : if the mineralized remains of testaceous animals are relics only of the Noachian flood , why do these too ex- hibit remains of so many species , and even genera , wholly extinct in their recent state ? Mr. Gisborne very ...
... Once more : if the mineralized remains of testaceous animals are relics only of the Noachian flood , why do these too ex- hibit remains of so many species , and even genera , wholly extinct in their recent state ? Mr. Gisborne very ...
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... Once more : we ob- ject , as Christians , to Mr. Gisborne's assumption , that the present surface of the globe could not have undergone the changes which appear upon it from any other than a moral cause . For how , we may be permitted ...
... Once more : we ob- ject , as Christians , to Mr. Gisborne's assumption , that the present surface of the globe could not have undergone the changes which appear upon it from any other than a moral cause . For how , we may be permitted ...
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... once of doubt- ful discovery and of difficult access . Consider further that the metallic bodies , when discovered and obtained , are rarely in a state fitting them for the service of man . They offer themselves to him in masses of ...
... once of doubt- ful discovery and of difficult access . Consider further that the metallic bodies , when discovered and obtained , are rarely in a state fitting them for the service of man . They offer themselves to him in masses of ...
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Page 47 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn ; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 36 - In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; they, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
Page 40 - Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but except ye repent yc shall all likewise perish.
Page 45 - If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men ; then the Lord hath not sent me. But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit ; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.
Page 117 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Page 383 - The charms that she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings which dizen the proud? Alas ! they are all laid aside ; And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud.
Page 47 - ... waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou...
Page 47 - Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 346 - Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day; and who knows when was the equinox ? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic, which scarce stands one moment.
Page 346 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.