The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed |
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Acrogens ages ancient animals anti-geologists appearance argument bear beds birds Carboniferous Cephalaspis character Coal Measures Coccosteus coniferous conifers creation creatures Cyclopteris Deluge deposits detected dicotyledonous Divine division earth elephant Eocene evidence exhibited existing extinct fact feet ferns fishes flood flora forests formation fossil fragments fronds furnished geologic geologist globe greatly heavens Helmsdale Holoptychius human hundred hyæna inches instance known land least length Lepidodendron less Lower Old Red mammals mayhap Miocene Mosaic Moses nature occur ocean Old Red Sandstone Oolitic organisms original Paleozoic peculiar period plants Pleistocene portion present race regarded remains remark represented reptiles resembles revelation rocks says scale scarce scene Scotland Scripture seems shells Silurian species specimens Sphenopteris stems surface Tertiary theologians thick thousand tion trees Triassic true ture Turretine upper vast vegetable vision
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Page 223 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 192 - Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written; Which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Page 188 - Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
Page 229 - Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Page 104 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 195 - 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...
Page 5 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 225 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Page 163 - Let there be light, said God ; And forthwith light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the deep...
Page 105 - No more ? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime, Were mellow music match'd with him. O life as futile, then, as frail ! O for thy voice to soothe and bless ! What hope of answer, or redress? Behind the veil, behind the veil.