The religion of geology and its connected sciences. Author's copyr. ed., with an additional lecture1860 |
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... importance in my own estimation ; since some of them are merely hypothetical hints thrown out for the consideration of abler minds . This work does not exhibit quite so much of logical exactness as I could wish . But my leading object ...
... importance in my own estimation ; since some of them are merely hypothetical hints thrown out for the consideration of abler minds . This work does not exhibit quite so much of logical exactness as I could wish . But my leading object ...
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... importance in its religious bearings has recently excited a good deal of sharp discussion in America . I refer to the questions of the specific unity and unity of origin of the human race . To a person who has never studied the subject ...
... importance in its religious bearings has recently excited a good deal of sharp discussion in America . I refer to the questions of the specific unity and unity of origin of the human race . To a person who has never studied the subject ...
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... important object He had in view , viz . , to teach the world religious truth . Such being the case , the language employed to describe natural phenomena must have been adapted to the state of knowledge among the people to whom the ...
... important object He had in view , viz . , to teach the world religious truth . Such being the case , the language employed to describe natural phenomena must have been adapted to the state of knowledge among the people to whom the ...
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... important means of attaining the true usus loquendi , or principle of interpretation . But I pass by all these on the present occasion , because no one doubts their importance in rightly understanding the Bible . I maintain that ...
... important means of attaining the true usus loquendi , or principle of interpretation . But I pass by all these on the present occasion , because no one doubts their importance in rightly understanding the Bible . I maintain that ...
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... be mistaken ; but I cannot see why this reply does not completely meet the difficulty , and free an important doctrine from an incubus under which it has long lain half smothered . upon the principles of natural history ; but for their.
... be mistaken ; but I cannot see why this reply does not completely meet the difficulty , and free an important doctrine from an incubus under which it has long lain half smothered . upon the principles of natural history ; but for their.
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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.