The religion of geology and its connected sciences. Author's copyr. ed., with an additional lecture1860 |
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... feet thick . The deutozoic group consists only of the triassic , or upper new red sandstone , and is only nine hundred feet thick , but marks a distinct period of life . The tritozoic embraces the lias and oolite , with the Wealden ...
... feet thick . The deutozoic group consists only of the triassic , or upper new red sandstone , and is only nine hundred feet thick , but marks a distinct period of life . The tritozoic embraces the lias and oolite , with the Wealden ...
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... feet , and when they looked up , they saw the heavenly bodies in motion . What bold impiety , therefore , did it seem , even to men of liberal and enlightened minds , for any one to rise up and assert that all this testimony of the ...
... feet , and when they looked up , they saw the heavenly bodies in motion . What bold impiety , therefore , did it seem , even to men of liberal and enlightened minds , for any one to rise up and assert that all this testimony of the ...
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... feet in depth , and rivers have cut channels through the hardest strata , hundreds of feet deep and several miles long ; both of which effects demand periods inconceivably long . Fourteenthly . At a comparatively recent date , northern ...
... feet in depth , and rivers have cut channels through the hardest strata , hundreds of feet deep and several miles long ; both of which effects demand periods inconceivably long . Fourteenthly . At a comparatively recent date , northern ...
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... feet thick , within eight hundred years . And occasionally such rapid depositions probably took place while the older rocks were in the course of formation . But in general , the work seems to have gone on as slowly as it usually does ...
... feet thick , within eight hundred years . And occasionally such rapid depositions probably took place while the older rocks were in the course of formation . But in general , the work seems to have gone on as slowly as it usually does ...
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... feet deep . Similar cuts occur on the Columbia River , hundreds of feet deep , through the hard trap rock , for hundreds of miles , between the American Falls and the Dalles . At St. Anthony's Falls , on the Mississippi , that river has ...
... feet deep . Similar cuts occur on the Columbia River , hundreds of feet deep , through the hard trap rock , for hundreds of miles , between the American Falls and the Dalles . At St. Anthony's Falls , on the Mississippi , that river has ...
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Page 289 - The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage : But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: Neither can they die any more : for they are equal unto the angels ; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Page 129 - Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay : but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Page 35 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.
Page 85 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth ; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 62 - And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life...
Page 86 - Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
Page xiv - For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.
Page 171 - Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made, thou art God from everlasting, and world without end.
Page 86 - And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
Page 243 - And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.