An Essay Towards a Natural History of the Earth, and Terrestrial Bodies, Especially Minerals: As Also of the Sea, Rivers, and Springs. With an Account of the Universal Deluge: and of the Effects that it Had Upon the EarthA. Bettesworth and W. Taylor ... R. Gosling ... and J. Clarke, 1723 - 304 páginas |
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... most apparent Injury and Injustice to Truth . And for Mofes , he bar ving given an Account of fome Things which I bere treat of , I was bound to allow him the fame Plea that I do other Writers , and to confider what he bath deliver'd ...
... most apparent Injury and Injustice to Truth . And for Mofes , he bar ving given an Account of fome Things which I bere treat of , I was bound to allow him the fame Plea that I do other Writers , and to confider what he bath deliver'd ...
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... most fimple and obvious Circumftances of thefe terreftrial Bodies . it As to the Certainty and Accurate- nefs of my Obfervations , thus much may modeftly and very truly be faid , that I do not offer any one before I had firft thoroughly ...
... most fimple and obvious Circumftances of thefe terreftrial Bodies . it As to the Certainty and Accurate- nefs of my Obfervations , thus much may modeftly and very truly be faid , that I do not offer any one before I had firft thoroughly ...
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... most retired and inward Parts of the moft firm and folid Rocks in the deepest Bowels of the Earth , as well as upon the Surface of it upon the Tops of even the highest Hills and Mountains , as well as in the Valleys and Plains : and ...
... most retired and inward Parts of the moft firm and folid Rocks in the deepest Bowels of the Earth , as well as upon the Surface of it upon the Tops of even the highest Hills and Mountains , as well as in the Valleys and Plains : and ...
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... most eminent of thofe very Gentlemen , who formerly were doubtful in this Matter , and rather inclinable to believe that thefe were natural Minerals , and who had wrote in Defense of that Opinion , do , notwithstanding , upon ftrict and ...
... most eminent of thofe very Gentlemen , who formerly were doubtful in this Matter , and rather inclinable to believe that thefe were natural Minerals , and who had wrote in Defense of that Opinion , do , notwithstanding , upon ftrict and ...
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... most received and prevalent Opinion * when I first * Vid . brought my Collection of thefe Things Three Dif up to London . Ray's courses 8 ° . Lond . There have been , befides these 1693 , recited , fome other Conjectures pro- pag . 127 ...
... most received and prevalent Opinion * when I first * Vid . brought my Collection of thefe Things Three Dif up to London . Ray's courses 8 ° . Lond . There have been , befides these 1693 , recited , fome other Conjectures pro- pag . 127 ...
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Página 274 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Página 253 - 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. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Página 255 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Página 273 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Página 251 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Página 101 - And the LORD smelled a sweet savour ; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Página 74 - Gravity finking not down till laffof all, fettling at the Surface of the Sediment, and. covering all the reft. That the. Matter...
Página 185 - ... corpuscles which lye loose in its way, and are withal so small as to be able to pass those interstices ; forcing them along with it into the perpendicular intervalls ; to which it naturally directs its course, as finding there a ready exit and discharge, being partly exhaled thence up into the atmosphere, and partly flowing forth upon the surface of the earth, and forming springs and rivers. " That the water which falls upon the surface of the earth in rain, bears also some, tho...
Página 88 - And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Página 21 - Particles thereof, together with those of the Earth, Chalk, and the rest, as also Shells, and all other Animal and Vegetable Bodies, were taken up into, and sustained in, the Water ; that at length all these subsided again promiscuously, and without any other order than that of the different...