The Migration from Shinar: Or, the Earliest Links Between the Old and New ContinentsHodder and Stoughton, 1879 - 251 pages |
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... hundred thousand years ago , are not only far from convincing , but in many instances simply childish . The Darwinian theory has its devoted fol- lowers , who go to far greater lengths than Mr. Darwin himself . Again , the Atomic theory ...
... hundred thousand years ago , are not only far from convincing , but in many instances simply childish . The Darwinian theory has its devoted fol- lowers , who go to far greater lengths than Mr. Darwin himself . Again , the Atomic theory ...
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... hundred thousand years ago , according to the computations of these learned men . Let the following facts speak for themselves : — " To give the reader an intelligent view of the argu- ment which springs from the peat , it is necessary ...
... hundred thousand years ago , according to the computations of these learned men . Let the following facts speak for themselves : — " To give the reader an intelligent view of the argu- ment which springs from the peat , it is necessary ...
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... hundred years . This layer shows all the evidences of gradual deposit through long centuries ! Six feet in thickness , it tells the interesting tale of eighteen hundred years . Our Caledonian forefathers must then have been much ...
... hundred years . This layer shows all the evidences of gradual deposit through long centuries ! Six feet in thickness , it tells the interesting tale of eighteen hundred years . Our Caledonian forefathers must then have been much ...
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... hundred years ; and although we have satisfactory evidence that few of the great mountain ranges or large rivers have under- gone any material change since the universal deluge , still we have ample data to satisfy us that many tracts ...
... hundred years ; and although we have satisfactory evidence that few of the great mountain ranges or large rivers have under- gone any material change since the universal deluge , still we have ample data to satisfy us that many tracts ...
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... hundred and fifty acres of earth and rock , making the coast line almost straight , and about a hundred and fifty feet high . For three square miles to the northward of Port Reso- lution , it is one mass of loose earth and rock , with ...
... hundred and fifty acres of earth and rock , making the coast line almost straight , and about a hundred and fifty feet high . For three square miles to the northward of Port Reso- lution , it is one mass of loose earth and rock , with ...
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Page 42 - God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
Page xi - For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me : for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
Page 53 - Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; Thou crownedst him with glory and honour, And didst set him over the works of thy hands: Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet.
Page 247 - The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained...
Page 141 - And the Sun stood still, and the Moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies: is not this written in the book of Jasher ? so the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
Page 192 - In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Page 98 - Man was in ancient days of grosser mould, And Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyond the limits he had vainly set, The dullest seaboat soon shall wing her way. Men shall descry another hemisphere, Since to one common centre all things tend; So earth, by curious mystery divine Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres. At our antipodes are cities, states, And thronged empires, ne'er divined of yore. But see, the sun speeds on his western path To glad the nations with expected light.
Page 27 - Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. 7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
Page 3 - And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth : and Ham is the father of Canaan. 19 These are the three sons of Noah : and of them was the whole earth overspread.
Page 98 - Know that this theory is false, his bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashion'd like a wheel. Man was in ancient days of grosser mould, And Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyond the limits he had vainly set, The dullest seaboat soon shall wing her way. Men shall descry another hemisphere...