An Introduction to Geology: Intended to Convey a Practical Knowledge of the Science, and Comprising the Most Important Recent Discoveries, with Explanations of the Facts and Phenomena which Serve to Confirm Or Invalidate Various Geological Theories |
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Page 448 - to move, and which is so far from being limited in its application to the insects or the reptiles, that, in Psalm civ. 20, 21, we find it applied to the beast of the forest and the young lions : " Thou makest darkness and it is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep
Page 454 - generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the heavens and the earth." Which of the three senses shall we adopt? If the
Page 455 - 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
Page 455 - of Israel, whose day is come when iniquity shall have an end. Proverbs vi. 34.—For jealousy is the rage of a man; therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Page 445 - from a verb, which, from Joel ii. 22, we learn the meaning is to spring, to shoot, to vegetate, " Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, (dasheu.") In the
Page 454 - the day that the Lord God made the heavens and the earth." 4. If the Canons of criticism require that one sense of the word day should be adopted and preserved throughout the whole account, how are we to understand this verse ? " These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the
Page 16 - result of determined laws, directed by the same wisdom which regulates every part of the external universe. Compared with the ephemeral existence of man on the earth, the epochs of these changes may appear of almost inconceivable duration; but we are expressly told, " that with the Creator a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years." CHAPTER II. ON PETRIFACTIONS, OR FOSSIL,
Page 263 - Dissiluisse ferunt: cum protenus utraque tellus Una foret, venit medio vi pontus, et undis Hesperium Siculo latus abscidit: arvaque et urbes Littore diductas angusto interluit sestu.
Page 264 - well about the fort, as on the declivities of the mountain, alarmed by this appearance, betook themselves to flight; but before they could all save themselves, the mountain began to give way, and the greatest part of it actually fell in, and disappeared in the earth. At
Page 126 - beds of workable coal, the total average thickness of which is 95 feet, and the quantity contained in each acre is 100,000 tons, or 65,000,000 tons per square mile. If from this we deduct one half for waste, and for the minor extent of the upper beds, we shall have a clear supply of coal, equal to