The Inverted Scheme of Copernicus: With the Pretended Experiments Upon which His Followers Have Founded Their Hypotheses of Matter and Motion ... Contrasted with the Formation of One World by Divine Power, as it is Revealed in the History of Creation ... to which is Prefixed a Letter to Sir Humphry Davy ...J. Lang, 1822 - 216 sidor |
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... writers who first attacked it in its very foundation , by the revival of the greek fable , were not friendly to the circulation of the Holy Scriptures . Why they should have been hostile to its beneficial light and influence , I cannot ...
... writers who first attacked it in its very foundation , by the revival of the greek fable , were not friendly to the circulation of the Holy Scriptures . Why they should have been hostile to its beneficial light and influence , I cannot ...
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... writer emphatically said , -IF THE FOUNDATIONS ARE DESTROYED , WHAT CAN THE RIGHTEOUS DO ? Psalm xi . 3 . I repeat the words ; -if the foundations be destroyed , what can the righteous do ? -De- stroyed , they cannot be ; but if , for a ...
... writer emphatically said , -IF THE FOUNDATIONS ARE DESTROYED , WHAT CAN THE RIGHTEOUS DO ? Psalm xi . 3 . I repeat the words ; -if the foundations be destroyed , what can the righteous do ? -De- stroyed , they cannot be ; but if , for a ...
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... writers . I shall quote only a passage or two from one of the most plausible of them , for the pur- pose of shewing how undeservedly a man may become extremely popular among the inconsiderate . This man set himself against both divine ...
... writers . I shall quote only a passage or two from one of the most plausible of them , for the pur- pose of shewing how undeservedly a man may become extremely popular among the inconsiderate . This man set himself against both divine ...
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... writer , after having described what he terms the worlds of the Solar System , and dogmatically assured his readers , without offering , or being in possession of a single proof in support of his belief , that " the circum- ference of ...
... writer , after having described what he terms the worlds of the Solar System , and dogmatically assured his readers , without offering , or being in possession of a single proof in support of his belief , that " the circum- ference of ...
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... writer . The science of calculating eclipses was known some thousands of years before computations were formed upon the hypothesis of the Solar System ; nor is it of any real use in such cal- culations . The writings which are extant of ...
... writer . The science of calculating eclipses was known some thousands of years before computations were formed upon the hypothesis of the Solar System ; nor is it of any real use in such cal- culations . The writings which are extant of ...
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Sida 38 - ... these primitive particles being solids are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces, no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Sida 93 - And I will establish my covenant with you ; neither shall all flesh be cut off" any more by the waters of a flood ; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Sida 2 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Sida 16 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Sida 38 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Sida 38 - ... even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one, in the first creation. While the particles continue entire, they may compose bodies of one and the same nature and texture in all ages ; but should they wear away or break in pieces, the nature of things depending on them would be changed.
Sida 119 - And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
Sida 76 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, And set bars and doors, And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Sida 155 - For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet...