The creative week: a secular exposition of the Mosaic record of Creation [the Book of Genesis] by the author of 'Commentaries on the Georgics of Virgil' and other works1856 |
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... adapted to the ideas of mankind in the ear- liest ages . " " * What Dr Smith and some others see * If , according to Dr Smith , the history of creation was prepared expressly to suit " mankind in the ear- liest ages , " it is reasonable ...
... adapted to the ideas of mankind in the ear- liest ages . " " * What Dr Smith and some others see * If , according to Dr Smith , the history of creation was prepared expressly to suit " mankind in the ear- liest ages , " it is reasonable ...
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... adapted for all ages , whether early or late , rude or refined . For Dr Smith's " mankind in the earliest ages , " I would therefore substitute - men in all ages , and of all na- tions , of all ranks , and in all situations and circum ...
... adapted for all ages , whether early or late , rude or refined . For Dr Smith's " mankind in the earliest ages , " I would therefore substitute - men in all ages , and of all na- tions , of all ranks , and in all situations and circum ...
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... adapted to the different geological periods it has passed through ; and as I wish to ad- vance nothing without proof , I shall not in this place assert that the firmament of the text is our present at- mosphere . The globe , we have ...
... adapted to the different geological periods it has passed through ; and as I wish to ad- vance nothing without proof , I shall not in this place assert that the firmament of the text is our present at- mosphere . The globe , we have ...
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... adapted for the human era . Hence the light of the sun required to be adjusted anew , and an entirely new atmosphere created . It is possible , however , that scientific men may be able to prove , that the atmosphere of the ter- tiary ...
... adapted for the human era . Hence the light of the sun required to be adjusted anew , and an entirely new atmosphere created . It is possible , however , that scientific men may be able to prove , that the atmosphere of the ter- tiary ...
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... adapted for our era is not adjusted till the fourth day . On the fourth day the adjustments in relation to the sun are com- pleted . Before proceeding further with our exposition , it may not be improper here to notice an objection con ...
... adapted for our era is not adjusted till the fourth day . On the fourth day the adjustments in relation to the sun are com- pleted . Before proceeding further with our exposition , it may not be improper here to notice an objection con ...
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Page 361 - Let people serve thee, And nations bow down to thee: Be lord over thy brethren, And let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: Cursed be every one that curseth thee, And blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Page 383 - And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark : and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged...
Page 197 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 321 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 266 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
Page 269 - He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Page 200 - God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
Page 259 - Let the earth Put forth the verdant grass, herb yielding seed, And fruit-tree yielding fruit after her kind; Whose seed is in herself upon the earth.
Page 266 - Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you it shall be for meat.
Page 318 - Their downy breast ; the swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet...