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... as their influence is chiefly expended on those of a different circle. It springs
undoubtedly from doctrines that are taught them by persons of their own sphere,
and that enter as elements into the system of popular education, and doctrines
that, ...
... as their influence is chiefly expended on those of a different circle. It springs
undoubtedly from doctrines that are taught them by persons of their own sphere,
and that enter as elements into the system of popular education, and doctrines
that, ...
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... it necessary to offer any apology for stating and maintaining what the sacred
word teaches on the subject, or pointing out the elements of their hypothesis,
which are, in our judgment, at war alike with that record and with their own
principles.
... it necessary to offer any apology for stating and maintaining what the sacred
word teaches on the subject, or pointing out the elements of their hypothesis,
which are, in our judgment, at war alike with that record and with their own
principles.
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... a few species — such as the elements of air and water — is raised to a
gaseous form only by intense heat. But heat is naturally latent. It is developed or
made perceptible only by chemical action. To suppose the world to have been
created ...
... a few species — such as the elements of air and water — is raised to a
gaseous form only by intense heat. But heat is naturally latent. It is developed or
made perceptible only by chemical action. To suppose the world to have been
created ...
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to have been created in a condition in which it could not — according to the
present laws of matter — have existed, except as a secondary state ; or as a
consequence of the action of its elements on each other after they were created.
to have been created in a condition in which it could not — according to the
present laws of matter — have existed, except as a secondary state ; or as a
consequence of the action of its elements on each other after they were created.
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If they do not prove the great age of the world, by what they themselves are,
irrespective of any speculations, in regard to the agents by which they were
formed, they cannot prove it at all ; precisely as, if the nature and number of the
elements ...
If they do not prove the great age of the world, by what they themselves are,
irrespective of any speculations, in regard to the agents by which they were
formed, they cannot prove it at all ; precisely as, if the nature and number of the
elements ...
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Página 168 - And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man : All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Página 142 - Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Página 143 - And God said, 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.
Página 144 - 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.
Página 131 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Página 125 - By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
Página 114 - 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 that were above the firmament: and it was so.
Página 142 - 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 395 - 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 41 - Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy: , Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy gates...
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| Título | Geognosy: Or, The Facts and Principles of Geology Against Theories |
| Autor | David Nevins Lord |
| Editor | F. Knight., 1855 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 28 Nov 2007 |
| N.º de páginas | 412 páginas |
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