Geology as a Science, Applied to the Reclamation of Land from the Sea, the Construction of Harbours, the Formation of Railroads, and the Discovery of Coal: With an Assumed Outline Map of the Granite Formation of the Earth...Ridgway, 1840 - 442 sidor |
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... operation could have effected these results , which still remain distinctly and extensively mapped out for our observation to dwell upon . The proud waves were stayed ; bars put upon them , and doors set to let out their rage . Nor ...
... operation could have effected these results , which still remain distinctly and extensively mapped out for our observation to dwell upon . The proud waves were stayed ; bars put upon them , and doors set to let out their rage . Nor ...
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... operations , its joinings would have been incomplete , a confused force must have been em- ployed , the chain must have been broken , the figure of the earth faulty , and the distribution of dry land exceedingly different . The origin ...
... operations , its joinings would have been incomplete , a confused force must have been em- ployed , the chain must have been broken , the figure of the earth faulty , and the distribution of dry land exceedingly different . The origin ...
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... operations . The attraction of gravitation , indeed , divested of resisting forces , would seem a fable . It appears plain , therefore , that a current composed of active atoms is continually carried towards the Northern Pole , which ...
... operations . The attraction of gravitation , indeed , divested of resisting forces , would seem a fable . It appears plain , therefore , that a current composed of active atoms is continually carried towards the Northern Pole , which ...
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... operations which essentially belong to a single space of tidal deposi- tions . The evidences here given , correspond so truly with the general theory already propounded , that the inferences deduced would appear unanswerable . To lift ...
... operations which essentially belong to a single space of tidal deposi- tions . The evidences here given , correspond so truly with the general theory already propounded , that the inferences deduced would appear unanswerable . To lift ...
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... operations in physics , directed to organic ends , and by which a habitable globe has been framed , much , if not most of the granite here described , must have obviously been hidden beneath the waves of the sea . The cause of order and ...
... operations in physics , directed to organic ends , and by which a habitable globe has been framed , much , if not most of the granite here described , must have obviously been hidden beneath the waves of the sea . The cause of order and ...
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Sida 361 - Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Sida 438 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled ; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Sida 363 - Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work : but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God : in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...
Sida 132 - For the Lord is a great God; and a great King above all gods. In his hand are all the corners of the earth ; and the strength of the hills is his also.
Sida 360 - And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Sida 362 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens...
Sida 360 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Sida 363 - In it thou shalt do no manner of work ; thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it.
Sida 360 - And God saw every thing that he had made ; and behold it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Sida 438 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain; who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; who maketh the clouds his chariot; who walketh upon the wings of the wind; who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire. Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.