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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... become solid and had got an atmosphere . And if we can prove that the atmosphere of the text is our present atmosphere , that will effectually annihilate the long period which the a priori men would have us be- lieve intervenes between ...
... become solid and had got an atmosphere . And if we can prove that the atmosphere of the text is our present atmosphere , that will effectually annihilate the long period which the a priori men would have us be- lieve intervenes between ...
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... becomes visible in one form or another . They admit , however , that the gaseous is the first state in which matter exists in globes . Now , " the earth , " verse 1 , puts it beyond all doubt and dispute , that at the time there ...
... becomes visible in one form or another . They admit , however , that the gaseous is the first state in which matter exists in globes . Now , " the earth , " verse 1 , puts it beyond all doubt and dispute , that at the time there ...
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... become an uninhabitable mass of disorder , confusion , and death , such as never had any existence save in the wild and wayward imaginations of men . But the ex nihilo men may still insist that the world was created out of nothing ...
... become an uninhabitable mass of disorder , confusion , and death , such as never had any existence save in the wild and wayward imaginations of men . But the ex nihilo men may still insist that the world was created out of nothing ...
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... becoming in substance true stones . It seems like an impeachment of the wisdom of the Crea- tor to assert that shells and other fossils were made in the states in which they exist in the strata . But those who insist that petrifactions ...
... becoming in substance true stones . It seems like an impeachment of the wisdom of the Crea- tor to assert that shells and other fossils were made in the states in which they exist in the strata . But those who insist that petrifactions ...
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... become , and fitted up progressively for the habitation of suc- cessive races of plants and animals , rising , cycle after cycle , into a magnificent climax in the scale of exist- ence , till it end in a species of beings , who , having ...
... become , and fitted up progressively for the habitation of suc- cessive races of plants and animals , rising , cycle after cycle , into a magnificent climax in the scale of exist- ence , till it end in a species of beings , who , having ...
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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...