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 and General ReadersRobinson, Pratt, & Company, 1837 - 384 sidor |
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... considered as having laid the foundation of geolo- owledge . fossil , or petrified shells , were found in 1517 , in ence of some excavations which were made for pose of repairing some part of the city of Verona . mains , it is true ...
... considered as having laid the foundation of geolo- owledge . fossil , or petrified shells , were found in 1517 , in ence of some excavations which were made for pose of repairing some part of the city of Verona . mains , it is true ...
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... considered extinct , no living specimens of having any where been discovered . But in the days e this idea was considered as improper , and even , since , as was claimed , it derogated from the wis- - power of the Creator , in as much ...
... considered extinct , no living specimens of having any where been discovered . But in the days e this idea was considered as improper , and even , since , as was claimed , it derogated from the wis- - power of the Creator , in as much ...
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... considered as entirely groundless by succeeding gists , but recently the doctrine of subterranean heat een embraced by several respectable naturalists , and the prevailing foundation of the theories of earth- s and volcanoes . The ...
... considered as entirely groundless by succeeding gists , but recently the doctrine of subterranean heat een embraced by several respectable naturalists , and the prevailing foundation of the theories of earth- s and volcanoes . The ...
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... considered that sea - water a similar law of condensation . Now water being its motion , arranges itself according to its density , nich is at , or near the temperature of 40 ° , occupy the age lowest place , whi is superincumbent o In ...
... considered that sea - water a similar law of condensation . Now water being its motion , arranges itself according to its density , nich is at , or near the temperature of 40 ° , occupy the age lowest place , whi is superincumbent o In ...
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... considered as a e former , and falls into it long before their 3 reach the sea . The Ganges is discharged of Bengal , which forms a vast indenture into of more than two hundred miles in length . of the Ganges commences more than 200 he ...
... considered as a e former , and falls into it long before their 3 reach the sea . The Ganges is discharged of Bengal , which forms a vast indenture into of more than two hundred miles in length . of the Ganges commences more than 200 he ...
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Outlines of Geology: Intended as a Popular Treatise on the Most Interesting ... John Lee Comstock Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1841 |
Outlines of Geology: Intended as a Popular Treatise on the Most Interesting ... John Lee Comstock Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1841 |
Outlines of Geology: Intended as a Popular Treatise on the Most Interesting ... John Lee Comstock Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1838 |
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Sida 341 - 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 318 - 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 328 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Sida 321 - 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.
Sida 323 - 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.
Sida 368 - God said, Let there be light: let there be a firmament: let the waters under the heaven be gathered together into one place: let the earth bring forth: let there be lights in the firmament of heaven.
Sida 335 - 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...
Sida 140 - ... processes. They are found in elevations far above the level of every part of the ocean, and in places to which the sea could not be conveyed by any existing cause. They are not only inclosed in loose sand, but are often incrusted and penetrated on all sides by the hardest stones.
Sida 369 - 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 99 - And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth...