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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... greater skill ess was required to maintain them ; the end of such intellectual combats , being victory , and ry , at that period , was so whimsical as not to tes , and as theories of the earth were chiefly opinions and conceits , rather ...
... greater skill ess was required to maintain them ; the end of such intellectual combats , being victory , and ry , at that period , was so whimsical as not to tes , and as theories of the earth were chiefly opinions and conceits , rather ...
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... greater number logical phenomena than Werner's . It is impossi- r instance , to account for the present situation of ed rocks containing sea shells , unless we suppose , that the sea occupied the earth for ages , or that these vere ...
... greater number logical phenomena than Werner's . It is impossi- r instance , to account for the present situation of ed rocks containing sea shells , unless we suppose , that the sea occupied the earth for ages , or that these vere ...
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... greater than This difference has been variously estimat- consider the polar , to the equitorial diameter rtion of 304 to 305 , we shall perhaps come as th as the present state of observations will s allows the poles a compression equal ...
... greater than This difference has been variously estimat- consider the polar , to the equitorial diameter rtion of 304 to 305 , we shall perhaps come as th as the present state of observations will s allows the poles a compression equal ...
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... greater density counterbalance this want of weight at the ese considerations , it has been supposed that r of the earth , instead of being composed of the surface , must consist of metallic substances . o been shown from mathematical ...
... greater density counterbalance this want of weight at the ese considerations , it has been supposed that r of the earth , instead of being composed of the surface , must consist of metallic substances . o been shown from mathematical ...
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... greater than all the dry land with which we I- ( Daubuisson . ) st elevation of land is about 25,000 feet above e ... greater the quantity of solid water contains , the greater will be its specific et instituted a series of experiments ...
... greater than all the dry land with which we I- ( Daubuisson . ) st elevation of land is about 25,000 feet above e ... greater the quantity of solid water contains , the greater will be its specific et instituted a series of experiments ...
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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...