Outlines of Geology: Intended as a Popular Treatise on the Most Interesting Parts of the Science. Together with an Examination of the Question, Whether the Days of Creation Were Indefinite Periods. Designed for the Use of Schools of General ReadersRobinson, Pratt, 1841 - 384 sidor |
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... greater skill and acuteness was required to maintain them ; the end and object of such intellectual combats , being victory , and not truth . " No theory , at that period , was so whimsical as not to find advocates , and as theories of ...
... greater skill and acuteness was required to maintain them ; the end and object of such intellectual combats , being victory , and not truth . " No theory , at that period , was so whimsical as not to find advocates , and as theories of ...
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... greater number of geological phenomena than Werner's . It is impossi- ble , for instance , to account for the present situation of stratified rocks containing sea shells , unless we suppose , either that the sea occupied the earth for ...
... greater number of geological phenomena than Werner's . It is impossi- ble , for instance , to account for the present situation of stratified rocks containing sea shells , unless we suppose , either that the sea occupied the earth for ...
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... greater than at the poles . This difference has been variously estimat- ed , but if we consider the polar , to the equitorial diameter in the proportion of 304 to 305 , we shall perhaps come as near the truth as the present state of ...
... greater than at the poles . This difference has been variously estimat- ed , but if we consider the polar , to the equitorial diameter in the proportion of 304 to 305 , we shall perhaps come as near the truth as the present state of ...
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... greater density than 5 , to counterbalance this want of weight at the surface . From these considerations , it has been supposed that the interior of the earth , instead of being composed of rocks , like the surface , must consist of ...
... greater density than 5 , to counterbalance this want of weight at the surface . From these considerations , it has been supposed that the interior of the earth , instead of being composed of rocks , like the surface , must consist of ...
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... greater the quantity of solid matter any water contains , the greater will be its specific gravity . Dr. Marcet instituted a series of experiments on sea wa- ter from different parts of the world , from which he ob tained the following ...
... greater the quantity of solid matter any water contains , the greater will be its specific gravity . Dr. Marcet instituted a series of experiments on sea wa- ter from different parts of the world , from which he ob tained the following ...
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Outlines of Geology: Intended as a Popular Treatise on the Most Interesting ... John Lee Comstock Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1841 |
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Sida 365 - Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field...
Sida 337 - 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 314 - 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"; 1 VOID : empty.
Sida 331 - 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. 6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
Sida 324 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Sida 317 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the 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 99 - And behold I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven, and every thing that is in the earth shall die, but with thee will I establish My Covenant, and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife, and thy sons
Sida 100 - And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shall thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
Sida 323 - 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.
Sida 319 - And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth and in the open firmament of heaven.