A Comparative Estimate of the Mineral and Mosaical Geologies, Volumen1J. 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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... summarily state ; that the FIRST and SECOND PARTS treat , separately , of the MODE of the FIRST FORMATIONS of the Earth , according to the Mineral , and the Mosaical Geologies ; and , that the THIRD PART con- siders vi PREFACE .
... summarily state ; that the FIRST and SECOND PARTS treat , separately , of the MODE of the FIRST FORMATIONS of the Earth , according to the Mineral , and the Mosaical Geologies ; and , that the THIRD PART con- siders vi PREFACE .
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Granville Penn. Geologies ; and , that the THIRD PART con- siders the MODE of the CHANGES or REVOLUTIONS which the Earth has undergone , according to both Geologies . The results of these several investigations , will be found combined ...
Granville Penn. Geologies ; and , that the THIRD PART con- siders the MODE of the CHANGES or REVOLUTIONS which the Earth has undergone , according to both Geologies . The results of these several investigations , will be found combined ...
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... modes of augmentation , notwithstanding the cur- tailment of several redundancies , the treatise has unavoid- ably grown from one into two volumes . I am very far from regretting this circumstance ; it has enabled me to form a more ...
... modes of augmentation , notwithstanding the cur- tailment of several redundancies , the treatise has unavoid- ably grown from one into two volumes . I am very far from regretting this circumstance ; it has enabled me to form a more ...
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... mode of reasoning which appears to us to " be altogether inadmissible . " No doubt , it is so ; for , it would be to reason in a circle , which could never establish any thing . Again ; " if the testimony of science " can ever be of any ...
... mode of reasoning which appears to us to " be altogether inadmissible . " No doubt , it is so ; for , it would be to reason in a circle , which could never establish any thing . Again ; " if the testimony of science " can ever be of any ...
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... mode of per- version , but it is essentially contrary to its obvious argu- ment , which contends ; that we are , and must ever remain , 1 Jeremiah , xxxi . 35 . entirely ignorant of the created structure of the globe , xliv INTRODUCTION .
... mode of per- version , but it is essentially contrary to its obvious argu- ment , which contends ; that we are , and must ever remain , 1 Jeremiah , xxxi . 35 . entirely ignorant of the created structure of the globe , xliv INTRODUCTION .
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Página 153 - 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 252 - 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. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Página 206 - 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 33 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Página 258 - 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 220 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Página 142 - 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 257 - 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 209 - 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.
Página 258 - 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.