Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and GravelD. Appleton, 1883 - 452 pages |
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... destroyed world possessed no sedimentary rocks , then the entire material of the comet would consist of granitic stones and dust such as constitutes clays . The stones are reduced to a small size by the constant attrition : " The stones ...
... destroyed world possessed no sedimentary rocks , then the entire material of the comet would consist of granitic stones and dust such as constitutes clays . The stones are reduced to a small size by the constant attrition : " The stones ...
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... destroy all vegetable and animal life on earth . There is no difficulty in seeing our way to heat enough , if we concede that a comet really struck the earth or fell into the sun . The trouble is in the other direction - we would have ...
... destroy all vegetable and animal life on earth . There is no difficulty in seeing our way to heat enough , if we concede that a comet really struck the earth or fell into the sun . The trouble is in the other direction - we would have ...
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... destroyed world . And not humanity alone has fled to these hiding- places the terrified denizens of the forest , the domestic animals of the fields , with the instinct which in great tempests has driven them into the houses of men ...
... destroyed world . And not humanity alone has fled to these hiding- places the terrified denizens of the forest , the domestic animals of the fields , with the instinct which in great tempests has driven them into the houses of men ...
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... destroyed by a thunder - bolt . Now , this has the form of a myth , but really signifies a declination of the bodies moving around the earth and in the heavens , and a great conflagration of things upon the earth recurring at long ...
... destroyed by a thunder - bolt . Now , this has the form of a myth , but really signifies a declination of the bodies moving around the earth and in the heavens , and a great conflagration of things upon the earth recurring at long ...
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... destroyed in a rain of fire , they were transformed into goslings ; the sun it- self was on fire , and everything , together with the houses , was consumed . " * * " The North Americans of Antiquity , " p . 499 . Here we have the whole ...
... destroyed in a rain of fire , they were transformed into goslings ; the sun it- self was on fire , and everything , together with the houses , was consumed . " * * " The North Americans of Antiquity , " p . 499 . Here we have the whole ...
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Page 328 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 258 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon ; And thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, And the moon stayed, Until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies.
Page 290 - As the waters fail from the sea, And the flood decayeth and drieth up : So man lieth down, and riseth not. Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be raised out of their sleep.
Page 448 - Our Place among Infinities: A Series of Essays contrasting our Little Abode in Space and Time with the Infinities Around us.
Page 222 - And men forgot their passions in the dread Of this their desolation; and all hearts Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light: And they did live by watchfires - and the thrones, The palaces of crowned kings...
Page 419 - And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth...
Page 421 - ... but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Page 257 - And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
Page 420 - And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood...
Page 277 - It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: An image was before mine eyes, There was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God ? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker...