The Dynamical Theory of the Formation of the Earth, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1850 |
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... become the teller of the Earth's signs , seasons , days , and years . Contemplation of the magnitude of the achievement whereby the expansive principle was permanently fixed in the centre of our system . Corroborative conclusion from ...
... become the teller of the Earth's signs , seasons , days , and years . Contemplation of the magnitude of the achievement whereby the expansive principle was permanently fixed in the centre of our system . Corroborative conclusion from ...
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... become dry land . The earlier geologists embraced the former opinion , assuming that the ocean was originally universal , and had gradually sunk down to its actual level , so that the present islands and continents were left dry ...
... become dry land . The earlier geologists embraced the former opinion , assuming that the ocean was originally universal , and had gradually sunk down to its actual level , so that the present islands and continents were left dry ...
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... become soft ; and therefore they certainly had not that position at the time when this cement was actually soft . Nothing can be more sound and conclusive than this reasoning . If some of the vertical strata are proved to have been ...
... become soft ; and therefore they certainly had not that position at the time when this cement was actually soft . Nothing can be more sound and conclusive than this reasoning . If some of the vertical strata are proved to have been ...
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... become inclined to one another , though their identity is still to be recognized by their possessing the same thickness , and the same internal characters . These shifts are often of great extent , and must be measured by the quantity ...
... become inclined to one another , though their identity is still to be recognized by their possessing the same thickness , and the same internal characters . These shifts are often of great extent , and must be measured by the quantity ...
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... become com- pact and closely consolidated , and crumpling , into complicated folds , the toughest and most unyielding beds , as if they had been layers of some soft material , carelessly squeezed in the grasp of a powerful hand . " It ...
... become com- pact and closely consolidated , and crumpling , into complicated folds , the toughest and most unyielding beds , as if they had been layers of some soft material , carelessly squeezed in the grasp of a powerful hand . " It ...
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Page 180 - And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged...
Page 315 - And brake up for it my decreed place, And set bars and doors, And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Page 285 - Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
Page 255 - But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting King : at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
Page 130 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain; 3 who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; who maketh the clouds his chariot; who walketh upon the wings of the wind; 4 who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire; 5 who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
Page 383 - And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; and the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.
Page 255 - I, even I, am he that comforteth you : who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass...
Page 285 - Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters? Or a way for the lightning of thunder; To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; On the wilderness wherein there is no man.
Page 360 - ... and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven; and the evening and morning were the second day. God also said: Let the waters that are under the heaven be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.
Page 130 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy?