Theology in ScienceJarrold, 1860 - 348 páginas |
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... masses of granite , above which are deposited beds of lava and layers of slate . All these are wholly without organic remains ; not a fish then existed in the waters , not a blade of grass adorned the land , not a reptile wandered from ...
... masses of granite , above which are deposited beds of lava and layers of slate . All these are wholly without organic remains ; not a fish then existed in the waters , not a blade of grass adorned the land , not a reptile wandered from ...
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... masses like the roe of a fish ; and each contributes to the life and nourishment of the whole . The corals of the upper Silurian rocks are pretty abundant ; some belong to the highest forms , but the major part are of much humbler ...
... masses like the roe of a fish ; and each contributes to the life and nourishment of the whole . The corals of the upper Silurian rocks are pretty abundant ; some belong to the highest forms , but the major part are of much humbler ...
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... masses of rock - how . salt ; but the origin of rock - salt is by no means easy of explanation . probable . Probably it is of volcanic agency ; for it is What is well known that chloride of sodium ( table - salt ) is one of the ...
... masses of rock - how . salt ; but the origin of rock - salt is by no means easy of explanation . probable . Probably it is of volcanic agency ; for it is What is well known that chloride of sodium ( table - salt ) is one of the ...
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... mass . lows hence . The imagination is wholly unable to conceive What fol- what amount of years would be required to make a mountain out of small shells and skeletons , presuming that the inhabitants of those shells lived the term of ...
... mass . lows hence . The imagination is wholly unable to conceive What fol- what amount of years would be required to make a mountain out of small shells and skeletons , presuming that the inhabitants of those shells lived the term of ...
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... mass of silt seven or eight perpendicular miles in depth . Not only so , but all the materials of the rocks must have been held in solution , and fallen from the prevailing water , sorted into groups ; the granite first , then the ...
... mass of silt seven or eight perpendicular miles in depth . Not only so , but all the materials of the rocks must have been held in solution , and fallen from the prevailing water , sorted into groups ; the granite first , then the ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
abundant Africa Andés animals Asia Atlantic atmosphere belt Berbers birds brachiopods called carbonic carbonic acid carboniferous chalk character climate clouds coal coast cold colder colour continents corals Crustaceans degrees deposit desert Devonian divine wisdom earth elevated Europe evidence of divine example Exemplify existed feet fishes fossils genus gigantic globe granite Gulf heat Hindostan Hinduism inches Indian infer inhabitants insects islands land language less light lime limestone lowlands lows hence luminiferous ether means molluscs Mongols moon mountains northern numerous ocean Old World oölite oxygen Pacific period Persia plains plants plateaux polar poles portion race rain rays region reptiles rivers rocks sand SECTION Semitic servation shells shews Siberia Silurian skin slopes solid South America species square miles strata substances Suppose surface table-land temperature thick Tibet tide trees tribes trilobite tropics vapour vast vegetation whole wholly wind zone
Passagens conhecidas
Página 165 - Europe, is the site of two of the greatest river-systems of the earth, that of the Mississippi with its affluents, and that of the St. Lawrence with the chain of the Canadian Lakes. No prominent elevation appears between these rivers pursuing different directions, serving as a water-shed ; and as little observable is the elevation of the partition which separates the streams flowing to the St. Lawrence and to Hudson's Bay. Both have a very gentle...
Página 97 - 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...
Página 101 - 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 104 - He putteth forth his hand upon the rock ; he overturneth the mountains by the roots. He cutteth out rivers among the rocks ; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
Página 103 - When there were no depths, I was brought forth ; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth : while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
Página 99 - And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after its kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after its kind: and God saw that it was good.
Página 111 - Romans, where death is said to be the consequence of sin : " By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.
Página 323 - That all mankind did spring from one original, and that there are no different species among men. For God who made the world, hath made of one blood all the nations of men that dwell on all the face of the earth.
Página 100 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind; and it was so.