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... Extinction of Organic Life , .... 320 CHAPTER V. Time , and the Geological Epochs ,. CHAPTER VI . 328 The Mosaic Account of Creation - Geology , how reconcilable with ,. 348 THE CREATOR ,. Glossary , .. CONCLUSION . 366 377 THE COURSE ...
... Extinction of Organic Life , .... 320 CHAPTER V. Time , and the Geological Epochs ,. CHAPTER VI . 328 The Mosaic Account of Creation - Geology , how reconcilable with ,. 348 THE CREATOR ,. Glossary , .. CONCLUSION . 366 377 THE COURSE ...
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... extinct animals . These remains were all in a state of beautiful preservation ; the scales and fins are brightly enameled , and contrasted with the matrix in which they are set , the colors are as vivid and glistening as when the ...
... extinct animals . These remains were all in a state of beautiful preservation ; the scales and fins are brightly enameled , and contrasted with the matrix in which they are set , the colors are as vivid and glistening as when the ...
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... extinct races . But whether extinct and specifically different , or otherwise , they are creatures of a family , possessed of the same habits and performing the same operations , now as of old ; and if , as geologists say , millions of ...
... extinct races . But whether extinct and specifically different , or otherwise , they are creatures of a family , possessed of the same habits and performing the same operations , now as of old ; and if , as geologists say , millions of ...
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... extinct forests , from the trees and plants of a former age , is so very pro- bable , that some beds sound like wood under the beat of the hammer ; and large areas , when thin slices are placed under the microscope , are found in every ...
... extinct forests , from the trees and plants of a former age , is so very pro- bable , that some beds sound like wood under the beat of the hammer ; and large areas , when thin slices are placed under the microscope , are found in every ...
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... extinct families . Another ground of distinction among plants consists in the leaves or flattened expansions , from which they derive all their grace and symmetry . This is farther connected with the seed and rudimentary organs , and ...
... extinct families . Another ground of distinction among plants consists in the leaves or flattened expansions , from which they derive all their grace and symmetry . This is farther connected with the seed and rudimentary organs , and ...
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Sida 121 - And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar...
Sida 86 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled ; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Sida 228 - Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Sida 89 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Sida 93 - Space may produce new worlds; whereof so rife There went a fame in Heaven that he ere long Intended to create, and therein plant A generation whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the Sons of Heaven.
Sida 315 - Or bright infers not excellence : the earth Though, in comparison of heaven, so small, Nor glistering, may of solid good contain More plenty than the sun that barren shines...
Sida 352 - 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 357 - 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 156 - ... band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left ; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream still let me stray, Though none should guide my feeble way ; Still feel the breeze down Ettrick break, Although it chill my withered cheek ; Still lay my head by Teviot stone, Though there, forgotten and alone, The Bard...
Sida 86 - They go up by the mountains; They go down by the valleys Unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.