 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 612 pages
...respecting the correctness of the Mosaic narrative, but of our interpretation of it ; and still further, it should be borne in mind that the object of this account...the world was made. As the prevailing tendency of VOL. LVI. NO. cxi. D men men in those early clays was to worship the most glorions objects of nature,... | |
 | 1836 - 1184 pages
...respecting the correctness of the Mosaic narrative, but of our interpretation of it; and still further, it should be borne in mind that the object of this account...worship the most glorious objects of nature, namely, the gun, and moon, and stars, it should seem to have been one important point in the Mosaic account of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 606 pages
...respecting the correctness of the Mosaic narrative, but of our interpretation of it ; and still further, it should be borne in mind that the object of this account...state in what manner, but by whom, the world was made. Aa the prevailing tendency of men in those early days was to worship the most glorious objects of nature,... | |
 | 1836 - 534 pages
...narrative, but of our inter•etation of it; and still further it should be borne in mind, that the >ject of this account was not to state in what manner, but by whom, the orld was made. As the prevailing tendency of men, in those early lys, was to worship the most glorious... | |
 | William Williams Mather - 1841 - 310 pages
...respecting the correctness of the Mosaic narrative, but of our interpretation of it ; and still further, it should be borne in mind that the object of this account...was to worship the most glorious objects of nature, viz. the sun, moon and stars ; it should seem to have been one important point in the Mosaic ac. count... | |
 | Joshua Trimmer - 1841 - 560 pages
...correctness of the Mosaic narrative, but of our interpretation of it; and still further it should bo borne in mind, that the object of this Account was not to state in wfiat manner, but by irhom, the world was made. As the prevailing tendency of men, in those early days,... | |
 | 1850 - 612 pages
...reconciling the two accounts, to which we shall ere long have occasion to advert, concludes thus : — Tt should be borne in mind, that the object of this account was not to state in ithat manner, but by whom, the world was made. As the prevailing tendency of men, in those early days,... | |
 | Elias De La Roche Rendell - 1851 - 334 pages
...But after the display of much effort in that direction it has been said, that the object of Genesis " was not to state in what manner, but by whom the world was made." * This is cutting the difficulty shorter, but it does not explain it. A summary statement of this nature... | |
 | Elias De La Roche Rendell - 1852 - 344 pages
...But after the display of much effort in that direction it has been said, that the object of Genesis " was not to state in what manner, but by whom the world was made." * This is cutting the difficulty shorter, but it does not explain it. A summary statement of this nature... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1860 - 530 pages
...against the Hebrew writer. "It should be borne in mind," says Dr. Buckland, " that the object of the account was, not to state in what manner, but by whom, the world was made." Every one must see that this is an unfounded assertion, inasmuch as the greater part of the narrative... | |
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After all, it should be recollected,' says Dr. Buckland, ' that the question is not respecting the correctness of the Mosaic narrative, but of our interpretation of it; and still further, it should be borne in mind that the object of this account was,... 
