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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... whole indicating the effects of an enormous force acting from beneath , and at an unknown depth . Every part of the earth , except the most recent deposites , present similar phenomena , more . or less striking , and in this manner the ...
... whole indicating the effects of an enormous force acting from beneath , and at an unknown depth . Every part of the earth , except the most recent deposites , present similar phenomena , more . or less striking , and in this manner the ...
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... whole amounting to nearly forty pages , with twelve new illustrations by wood cuts . It is hoped , therefore , that this edition will be found much more worthy of public patronage than the former one . HARTFORD , CT . , January , 1834 ...
... whole amounting to nearly forty pages , with twelve new illustrations by wood cuts . It is hoped , therefore , that this edition will be found much more worthy of public patronage than the former one . HARTFORD , CT . , January , 1834 ...
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... whole human race , and annihilated all animal and vegetable productions , and that the second dissolved the Earth itself , but that this was afterwards renovated or re - produced . The connection between the doctrine of successive ca ...
... whole human race , and annihilated all animal and vegetable productions , and that the second dissolved the Earth itself , but that this was afterwards renovated or re - produced . The connection between the doctrine of successive ca ...
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... whole terrestrial globe fell ' n pieces and was dissolved by the waters of the flood , and that the strata of the earth settled down from this promis- cuous mass . In corroboration of this view , he insisted that marine bodies , as ...
... whole terrestrial globe fell ' n pieces and was dissolved by the waters of the flood , and that the strata of the earth settled down from this promis- cuous mass . In corroboration of this view , he insisted that marine bodies , as ...
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... have been proved by various tests . But it will be seen in the progress of this volume , that facts have decided against this hypothesis . We might occupy our whole volume with the different theories 24 GEOLOGICAL THEORIES .
... have been proved by various tests . But it will be seen in the progress of this volume , that facts have decided against this hypothesis . We might occupy our whole volume with the different theories 24 GEOLOGICAL THEORIES .
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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.