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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... excursions in order to observe facts , to reason correctly , and draw just conclu- from the remotest records of profane history , hy had assigned to this earth a perpetual se- supposed that this fair world was occasionally , or cally.
... excursions in order to observe facts , to reason correctly , and draw just conclu- from the remotest records of profane history , hy had assigned to this earth a perpetual se- supposed that this fair world was occasionally , or cally.
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... supposed that this fair world was occasionally , or cally destroyed , and again renovated under a new and that a new ... supposed their duration to be 120,000 years ; Cas- , 300,000 years , & c . The Greek philosophers and also ...
... supposed that this fair world was occasionally , or cally destroyed , and again renovated under a new and that a new ... supposed their duration to be 120,000 years ; Cas- , 300,000 years , & c . The Greek philosophers and also ...
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... supposed impossible should ever have been ; the idea that the sea had its bed , or that the strata had been elevated by nean forces , being then entirely unknown . such phenomena are readily accounted for on the sis that many parts of ...
... supposed impossible should ever have been ; the idea that the sea had its bed , or that the strata had been elevated by nean forces , being then entirely unknown . such phenomena are readily accounted for on the sis that many parts of ...
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... " a plastic virtue latent Our limits will not a subject , and to detail th Fossil strictly signifie geology this term is rest petrified , or mineralized fossils are supposed to be the world by more of the early geological writers ;
... " a plastic virtue latent Our limits will not a subject , and to detail th Fossil strictly signifie geology this term is rest petrified , or mineralized fossils are supposed to be the world by more of the early geological writers ;
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... supposed that e of the flood , enjoyed this assumed fact by pic was then coincid Je commotions during sent position , and th sons . He endeavou of the Earth as it rose to contain within itself deluge . A smooth cru waters of the abyss ...
... supposed that e of the flood , enjoyed this assumed fact by pic was then coincid Je commotions during sent position , and th sons . He endeavou of the Earth as it rose to contain within itself deluge . A smooth cru waters of the abyss ...
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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...