New and Conclusive Physical Demonstrations: Both of the Fact and Period of the Mosaic Deluge, and of Its Having Been the Only Event of the Kind that Has Ever Occurred Upon the EarthJames Ridgeway & sons, 1837 - 443 pagina's |
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New and Conclusive Physical Demonstrations: Both of the Fact and Period of ... George Fairholme Volledige weergave - 1837 |
New and Conclusive Physical Demonstrations: Both of the Fact and Period of ... George Fairholme Volledige weergave - 1837 |
New and Conclusive Physical Demonstrations: Both of the Fact and Period of ... George Fairholme Volledige weergave - 1840 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 8 - 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.
Pagina 344 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away- their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created : and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Pagina 301 - The ruins of an older world,' said Hutton, ' are visible in the present structure of our planet ; and the strata which now compose our continents have been once beneath the sea, and were formed out of the waste of pre-existing continents. The same forces are still destroying, by chemical decomposition or mechanical violence, even the hardest rocks, and transporting the materials to the sea, * Ed.
Pagina 349 - While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
Pagina 395 - The historian or the antiquary may have traversed the fields of ancient or of modern battles, and may have pursued the line of march of triumphant conquerors, whose armies trampled down the most mighty kingdoms of the world. The winds and storms have utterly obliterated the ephemeral impressions of their course. Not a track remains...
Pagina 171 - Fortunately the direction of this gale of wind was always more or less upwards, from the pool below, right against the face of the cliffs; were it otherwise, I fancy it would be impossible to go behind the Falls, with any chance of coming out again.
Pagina 304 - ... communicating with one another, and having such a nice adjustment of their declivities, that none of them join the principal valley, either on too high or too low a level...
Pagina 379 - ... transported into some adjacent lake, or estuary, or sea. Here they floated on the waters until they sank saturated to the bottom and being buried in the detritus of adjacent lands, became transferred to a new estate among the members of the mineral kingdom. A long interment followed, during which a course of chemical changes and new combinations of their vegetable elements have converted them to the mineral condition of coal.
Pagina xvii - The notion which these people entertain of the creation, is of a very singular nature. They believe that, at the first, the globe was one vast and entire ocean, inhabited by no living creature, except a mighty bird, whose eyes were fire, whose glances were lightning, and the clapping of whose wings was thunder.
Pagina 186 - If the ratio of recession had never exceeded fifty yards in forty years, it must have required nearly ten thousand years for the excavation of the whole ravine ; but no probable conjecture can be offered as to the quantity of time consumed in such an operation, because the retrograde movement may have been much more rapid when the whole current was confined within a space not exceeding a fourth or fifth of that which the falls now occupy.