The Creation and the Early Developments of SocietyG.P. Putnam's sons, 1880 - Всего страниц: 276 |
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... feet under the water of the Mediter- ranean Sea . Moreover , the columns show by marks . upon them , that they have been submerged to the height of twenty - three feet . Whence we infer that the land there subsided or sank to that depth ...
... feet under the water of the Mediter- ranean Sea . Moreover , the columns show by marks . upon them , that they have been submerged to the height of twenty - three feet . Whence we infer that the land there subsided or sank to that depth ...
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... of the earth . The highest mountains rise less than six miles above the level of the sea . The diameter of the earth is , in round numbers , eight thousand miles . Upon an artificial globe two feet in diame- 50 THE CREATION .
... of the earth . The highest mountains rise less than six miles above the level of the sea . The diameter of the earth is , in round numbers , eight thousand miles . Upon an artificial globe two feet in diame- 50 THE CREATION .
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James Henry Chapin. miles . Upon an artificial globe two feet in diame- ter a corresponding elevation would not exceed the thickness of common writing - paper . sure . Another cause of mountain making , of which some authors make much ...
James Henry Chapin. miles . Upon an artificial globe two feet in diame- ter a corresponding elevation would not exceed the thickness of common writing - paper . sure . Another cause of mountain making , of which some authors make much ...
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... feet . The period in which they were formed was long supposed to have been life- less . But recent discoveries have changed that conclusion . The plants , as plants , have entirely disappeared , no form of one being distinguishable in ...
... feet . The period in which they were formed was long supposed to have been life- less . But recent discoveries have changed that conclusion . The plants , as plants , have entirely disappeared , no form of one being distinguishable in ...
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... feet in length , with jaws six feet long , set with sabre - like teeth , and eyes of enormous size ; the Mosasaurus , the sea - serpent of the period , as Dana aptly describes . it , seventy - five feet in length and provided with ...
... feet in length , with jaws six feet long , set with sabre - like teeth , and eyes of enormous size ; the Mosasaurus , the sea - serpent of the period , as Dana aptly describes . it , seventy - five feet in length and provided with ...
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Стр. 38 - Into one place, and let dry land appear.' Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds; their tops ascend the sky: So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep, Capacious bed of waters...
Стр. 86 - 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.
Стр. 78 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Стр. 78 - To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual.
Стр. 147 - And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering : but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
Стр. 76 - See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go! Around, how wide! how deep extend below! Vast chain of being! which from God began. Natures...
Стр. 100 - To whom the patriarch of mankind replied : O favourable spirit, propitious guest, Well hast thou taught the way that might direct Our knowledge, and the scale of nature set From centre to circumference, whereon, In contemplation of created things, By steps we may ascend to God.
Стр. 2 - And tolls its perfume on the passing air, Makes Sabbath in the fields, and ever ringeth A call to prayer. Not to the domes where crumbling arch and column Attest the feebleness of mortal hand, But to that fane, most catholic and solemn , Which God hath planned. To that cathedral, boundless as our wonder, Whose quenchless lamps the sun and moon supply ; Its choir the winds and waves, — its organ thunder, — Its dome the sky.