Outlines of Geology: Intended as a Popular Treatise on the Most Interesting Parts of the Science. Together with an Examination of the Question, Whether the Days of Creation Were Indefinite Periods. Designed for the Use of Schools of General Readers |
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... stone , on the diluvium of Mas- sachusetts , History of plants , Mosaic , and natural , Fossils , division of , 241 250 250 Hooke on earthquakes , . 261 Horne on the deluge , 261 Human bones , fossil , 250 255 erns , amphibia ...
... stone , on the diluvium of Mas- sachusetts , History of plants , Mosaic , and natural , Fossils , division of , 241 250 250 Hooke on earthquakes , . 261 Horne on the deluge , 261 Human bones , fossil , 250 255 erns , amphibia ...
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... stones , which had as- sumed the appearances of shells , " through the influence of the heavenly bodies . " Olivi , a contemporary author , after much reasoning on these subjects , satisfied himself that fossil shells , bones , and such ...
... stones , which had as- sumed the appearances of shells , " through the influence of the heavenly bodies . " Olivi , a contemporary author , after much reasoning on these subjects , satisfied himself that fossil shells , bones , and such ...
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... stones , so shaped by nature as to imitate such re mains , or to use his own words , " formed for no other pur- pose than to play the mimic in the mineral kingdom . " He maintained , also , that many species of shells might be extinct ...
... stones , so shaped by nature as to imitate such re mains , or to use his own words , " formed for no other pur- pose than to play the mimic in the mineral kingdom . " He maintained , also , that many species of shells might be extinct ...
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... stone , and the lighter ones in chalk , and so of the rest . But this doctrine was immediately contradicted by the fact , that fossil bodies are often , however , mixed , the heavy with the light , in the same stratum . Although ...
... stone , and the lighter ones in chalk , and so of the rest . But this doctrine was immediately contradicted by the fact , that fossil bodies are often , however , mixed , the heavy with the light , in the same stratum . Although ...
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... stone and sandstones belong to this class . These rocks are derived from the fragmentary remains and the disinte- gration of the primitive rocks . The third class of rocks are supposed to have been form- ed by the action of the natural ...
... stone and sandstones belong to this class . These rocks are derived from the fragmentary remains and the disinte- gration of the primitive rocks . The third class of rocks are supposed to have been form- ed by the action of the natural ...
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Page 365 - Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field...
Page 337 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.
Page 314 - 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"; 1 VOID : empty.
Page 331 - 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. 6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
Page 324 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 317 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day, and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Page 99 - And behold I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven, and every thing that is in the earth shall die, but with thee will I establish My Covenant, and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife, and thy sons
Page 100 - And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shall thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
Page 323 - 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 319 - And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth and in the open firmament of heaven.