A Comparative Estimate of the Mineral and Mosaical Geologies, Volumen1J. Duncan, 1825 "Received well in religious circles, this work was severely censored as an unscientific attempt to treat the Book of Genesis as a manual of geology" - DNB. |
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... common sense , will wait in the expectation of such a monitor . Short of the term of the vivacious Varro , every reflecting person will be sensible of a period , in which it is prudent to begin sarcinas colligere . This motive has ...
... common sense , will wait in the expectation of such a monitor . Short of the term of the vivacious Varro , every reflecting person will be sensible of a period , in which it is prudent to begin sarcinas colligere . This motive has ...
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... common sense to judge , what weight they must have , if true , or even if supported by powerful moral and physical probability , in the Science of the Earth ; and , what must be the nature of that prudence , which would banish them ...
... common sense to judge , what weight they must have , if true , or even if supported by powerful moral and physical probability , in the Science of the Earth ; and , what must be the nature of that prudence , which would banish them ...
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... common sense of " mankind with such absurdities . The reveries of Buffon , are pious and philosophical compared with " it : Hutton's eternal renovations , and Cuvier's nume- rous debacles , are innocent postulates when weighed in " the ...
... common sense of " mankind with such absurdities . The reveries of Buffon , are pious and philosophical compared with " it : Hutton's eternal renovations , and Cuvier's nume- rous debacles , are innocent postulates when weighed in " the ...
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... common as to the most scientific observer , that they have been rent , " or cleft , to form that place3 . I shall here , therefore , use my just privilege of withdrawing myself from the arena ; and shall leave this sensitive champion 66 ...
... common as to the most scientific observer , that they have been rent , " or cleft , to form that place3 . I shall here , therefore , use my just privilege of withdrawing myself from the arena ; and shall leave this sensitive champion 66 ...
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... applying them both to some common and agreed test : by the decision of which test , we may be able to ascertain the validity of each , and thus at length to determine conclusively , СНАР . І. MINERAL AND MOSAICAL GEOLOGIES . 11.
... applying them both to some common and agreed test : by the decision of which test , we may be able to ascertain the validity of each , and thus at length to determine conclusively , СНАР . І. MINERAL AND MOSAICAL GEOLOGIES . 11.
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A Comparative Estimate of the Mineral and Mosaical Geologies, Volumen1 Granville Penn Vista completa - 1825 |
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Página 205 - And God said. Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear : and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth ; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas : and God saw that it was good.
Página 151 - When he prepared the heavens, I was there : when He set a compass upon the face of the depth : when He established the clouds above: when He strengthened the fountains of the deep : when He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not pass His commandment; when He appointed the foundations of the earth : then I was by Him as one brought up with Him; and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before him: rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth; and my delights were with the sons...
Página 248 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Página 304 - Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
Página xxiii - Thou, even thou, art Lord alone: thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all ; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Página 254 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat :
Página 202 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Página 140 - WHO is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man ; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
Página 253 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 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.
Página 151 - When he gave to the sea his decree, That the waters should not pass his commandment: When he appointed the foundations of the earth : Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: And I was daily his delight, Rejoicing always before him ; Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth ; And my delights were with the sons of men.