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... rivers , mountains , and con- tinents , by I know not what of fancied cataclysms and convulsions of nature ; explaining the unknown by the still more unknown , till some of their geological But theories were no more rational , because ...
... rivers , mountains , and con- tinents , by I know not what of fancied cataclysms and convulsions of nature ; explaining the unknown by the still more unknown , till some of their geological But theories were no more rational , because ...
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... river mud and sand . The river , helped by tributary brooks right and left , has brought down from the inland that enormous mass . You know that . You know that every flood and freshet brings a fresh load , either of fine mud or of fine ...
... river mud and sand . The river , helped by tributary brooks right and left , has brought down from the inland that enormous mass . You know that . You know that every flood and freshet brings a fresh load , either of fine mud or of fine ...
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... Rivers alone made the soil ? How very much they have done toward making it you will be able to judge for yourselves ... Rivers , " by Colonel George Greenwood . But though rain , like rivers , is a carrier of soil , it is more . It is a ...
... Rivers alone made the soil ? How very much they have done toward making it you will be able to judge for yourselves ... Rivers , " by Colonel George Greenwood . But though rain , like rivers , is a carrier of soil , it is more . It is a ...
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... rivers , making the soil of alluvial flats . Perhaps it has helped , likewise , to make the soil of all the lowlands in these isles - and that is , the waves of the sea . If you ever go to Parkgate , in Cheshire , try if you cannot ...
... rivers , making the soil of alluvial flats . Perhaps it has helped , likewise , to make the soil of all the lowlands in these isles - and that is , the waves of the sea . If you ever go to Parkgate , in Cheshire , try if you cannot ...
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... river in the morning ; would not your meeting me in the evening be also proof positive that somehow or other I had in the course of the day got out ... rivers , and seas are perpetually melting and grinding up 1. ] 45 THE SOIL OF THE FIELD .
... river in the morning ; would not your meeting me in the evening be also proof positive that somehow or other I had in the course of the day got out ... rivers , and seas are perpetually melting and grinding up 1. ] 45 THE SOIL OF THE FIELD .
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Página 284 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Página 318 - While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
Página 9 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Página 17 - Iron sharpeneth iron ; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Página 323 - My substance, was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes, did see my substance, yet being imperfect ; and, in thy book, all my members, were written, which, in continuance, were fashioned, when, as yet, there was none of them.
Página 213 - As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself...
Página 253 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Página 283 - Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Página 305 - For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things which are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.
Página 285 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.