Letters on the Physical History of the Earth, Addressed to Professor Blumenbach: Containing Geological and Historical Proofs of the Divine Mission of MosesC.J.G. and F. Rivington, 1831 - 422 pàgines |
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... Operations that relate to them ....... SECTION VI . Mosaic Days , to be considered as Indefinite Periods - Arguments in support of that Opinion - Ancient and Modern Authorities - Con- nection between the Mosaic Narrative of the CREATION ...
... Operations that relate to them ....... SECTION VI . Mosaic Days , to be considered as Indefinite Periods - Arguments in support of that Opinion - Ancient and Modern Authorities - Con- nection between the Mosaic Narrative of the CREATION ...
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... operations of those causes have been ascer- tained by the enlightened author of the present work with singular ingenuity and success . All their pro- ducts and effects are capable of measurement ; they are absolutely distinct and ...
... operations of those causes have been ascer- tained by the enlightened author of the present work with singular ingenuity and success . All their pro- ducts and effects are capable of measurement ; they are absolutely distinct and ...
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... operation is clearly discernible by the progress of vegetation ' . Now , if an antiquity without any assignable limits is to be ascribed to our continents , such operations must long since have been every where terminated , and the ...
... operation is clearly discernible by the progress of vegetation ' . Now , if an antiquity without any assignable limits is to be ascribed to our continents , such operations must long since have been every where terminated , and the ...
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... operations which are taking place on our continents . Nor can it fail to excite some surprise , that his name should have been passed over in silence by the professor , when deducing the same inferences from these phenomena , and ...
... operations which are taking place on our continents . Nor can it fail to excite some surprise , that his name should have been passed over in silence by the professor , when deducing the same inferences from these phenomena , and ...
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... operations of the sea must have been of long continuance on that spot , after the elephant bones and the shark's teeth had been buried in the blue clay ; and states his opinion that a great part of Saussure , in confirmation of his ...
... operations of the sea must have been of long continuance on that spot , after the elephant bones and the shark's teeth had been buried in the blue clay ; and states his opinion that a great part of Saussure , in confirmation of his ...
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Pàgina 174 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Pàgina 190 - And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you ; and with every living creature that Is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you ; 15 from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
Pàgina 196 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
Pàgina 177 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Pàgina 174 - And the flood was forty days upon the earth ; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
Pàgina 190 - And of every living thing of all flesh two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark to keep them alive with thee ; they shall be male and female.
Pàgina 191 - And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Pàgina 91 - To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts : as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness ; When your fathers tempted me : proved me, and saw my works.
Pàgina 90 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God mad* the earth and the heavens.
Pàgina 189 - Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.