A Comparative Estimate of the Mineral and Mosaical Geologies, Volumen 1J. Duncan, 1825 "Received well in religious circles, this work was severely censored as an unscientific attempt to treat the Book of Genesis as a manual of geology" - DNB. |
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... rendered less intricate the course which I have now to pursue in order to demonstrate and establish its solidity . I have found no cause whatever , for mistrusting the line of reasoning which I employed in the first instance ; and I am ...
... rendered less intricate the course which I have now to pursue in order to demonstrate and establish its solidity . I have found no cause whatever , for mistrusting the line of reasoning which I employed in the first instance ; and I am ...
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... rendered the abstinence prudent , having ceased , and being succeeded by an imperious reason for pursuing the research , the prosecution of it is no longer either imprudent or inexpedient . 4. Of the person of the God of Nature , we ...
... rendered the abstinence prudent , having ceased , and being succeeded by an imperious reason for pursuing the research , the prosecution of it is no longer either imprudent or inexpedient . 4. Of the person of the God of Nature , we ...
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... rendering its very name ridiculous , " it is these that can alone relieve it , both from all dread of error , and from the ridicule which must eventually attend all attempts to raise an edifice on vacuity , or on a foundation utterly ...
... rendering its very name ridiculous , " it is these that can alone relieve it , both from all dread of error , and from the ridicule which must eventually attend all attempts to raise an edifice on vacuity , or on a foundation utterly ...
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... render impertinent all the frolics of invention ? The play of the mind in invention , is most commonly like the play of a grampus on a shoal , which plays and flounders because it cannot make progress . That mental play is illegitimate ...
... render impertinent all the frolics of invention ? The play of the mind in invention , is most commonly like the play of a grampus on a shoal , which plays and flounders because it cannot make progress . That mental play is illegitimate ...
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... rendered necessary , by the respect due to the Reader himself . 20. In the first place , then , my Reviewer ... render the overthrow of its parts an easy operation ; and he intonates it thus- " there is no such thing in the Bible as a ...
... rendered necessary , by the respect due to the Reader himself . 20. In the first place , then , my Reviewer ... render the overthrow of its parts an easy operation ; and he intonates it thus- " there is no such thing in the Bible as a ...
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Página 205 - And God said. Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear : and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth ; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas : and God saw that it was good.
Página 151 - When he prepared the heavens, I was there : when He set a compass upon the face of the depth : when He established the clouds above: when He strengthened the fountains of the deep : when He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not pass His commandment; when He appointed the foundations of the earth : then I was by Him as one brought up with Him; and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before him: rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth; and my delights were with the sons...
Página 248 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Página 304 - Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
Página xxiii - Thou, even thou, art Lord alone: thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all ; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Página 254 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat :
Página 202 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Página 140 - WHO is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man ; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
Página 253 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. 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.
Página 151 - When he gave to the sea his decree, That the waters should not pass his commandment: When he appointed the foundations of the earth : Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: And I was daily his delight, Rejoicing always before him ; Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth ; And my delights were with the sons of men.