A Comparative Estimate of the Mineral and Mosaical Geologies, Volume 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 ...
... 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 ...
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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 2 , " 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 2 , " 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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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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 :
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.