The religion of geology and its connected sciences. Author's copyr. ed., with an additional lecture1860 |
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Page vii
... seems to me , professorships of natural theology , to be filled by men who are practically familiar with the natural sciences . If any such chairs exist in these seminaries , I do not know it . They are amply pro- vided with instruction ...
... seems to me , professorships of natural theology , to be filled by men who are practically familiar with the natural sciences . If any such chairs exist in these seminaries , I do not know it . They are amply pro- vided with instruction ...
Page viii
... seems a matter easy to settle ; yet , in fact , it demands extensive research even to understand . Great prominence has , of late , in America , been given to that part of the argument founded upon the distribution of the lower animals ...
... seems a matter easy to settle ; yet , in fact , it demands extensive research even to understand . Great prominence has , of late , in America , been given to that part of the argument founded upon the distribution of the lower animals ...
Page xv
... seems to have been first melted and protruded , and it continued to be pushed upward till the close of the secondary period of the stratified rocks , as is shown by the vein of granite on the section . Syenite and porphyry seem to have ...
... seems to have been first melted and protruded , and it continued to be pushed upward till the close of the secondary period of the stratified rocks , as is shown by the vein of granite on the section . Syenite and porphyry seem to have ...
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... seems to me , in order to be satisfied that he means only , that what- soever upon , or within , the earth , is combustible , will be burned up at the final conflagration ; and that the whole globe , the elements , will melt with ...
... seems to me , in order to be satisfied that he means only , that what- soever upon , or within , the earth , is combustible , will be burned up at the final conflagration ; and that the whole globe , the elements , will melt with ...
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... seems to have occupied the globe through a period of great length , so that we have here another evidence of the vast cycles of duration that must have rolled away even since the earth became a habitable globe . Tenthly . There is no ...
... seems to have occupied the globe through a period of great length , so that we have here another evidence of the vast cycles of duration that must have rolled away even since the earth became a habitable globe . Tenthly . There is no ...
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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.