The Dynamical Theory of the Formation of the Earth, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1850 |
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... heaven , of the pedestal on which they alike stood , while the one asserted and the other denied the fact ! -we , on the contrary , are constrained , from the altogether different nature of our subject , to seek , within the compass of ...
... heaven , of the pedestal on which they alike stood , while the one asserted and the other denied the fact ! -we , on the contrary , are constrained , from the altogether different nature of our subject , to seek , within the compass of ...
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... heaven , were stopped , and the rain from heaven was restrained ; and the waters returned from off the earth continually : and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated . " * * Genesis viii . 1-3 . SECTION VI ...
... heaven , were stopped , and the rain from heaven was restrained ; and the waters returned from off the earth continually : and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated . " * * Genesis viii . 1-3 . SECTION VI ...
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... heavens in 25,920 years . Nothing seemed more difficult to explain than this phenomenon , and no idea of assigning a physi- cal or mechanical cause for it had yet occurred , I believe , to the boldest and most theoretical astronomers ...
... heavens in 25,920 years . Nothing seemed more difficult to explain than this phenomenon , and no idea of assigning a physi- cal or mechanical cause for it had yet occurred , I believe , to the boldest and most theoretical astronomers ...
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... heavens around the pole of the ecliptic as a centre , keeping constantly at the same distance of 23 ° 28'.0 from it , in a direction from east to west , with a velocity that the annual angle described by it , in this its imaginary orbit ...
... heavens around the pole of the ecliptic as a centre , keeping constantly at the same distance of 23 ° 28'.0 from it , in a direction from east to west , with a velocity that the annual angle described by it , in this its imaginary orbit ...
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... heaven and earth should pass away , will never pass away . be In offering our acknowledgments to ASTRONOMY for the ... heavens the brightest representative in FORMATION OF THE EARTH . 217.
... heaven and earth should pass away , will never pass away . be In offering our acknowledgments to ASTRONOMY for the ... heavens the brightest representative in FORMATION OF THE EARTH . 217.
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Page 618 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
Page 184 - 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 319 - 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 289 - Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
Page 259 - 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 134 - 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 387 - 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 259 - 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 495 - 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,
Page 364 - ... 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.