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... once held a very different view , and twitted with what he terms inconsistency . I certainly did once believe with Chalmers and with Buckland that the six days were simply natural days of twenty - four hours each , that they had ...
... once held a very different view , and twitted with what he terms inconsistency . I certainly did once believe with Chalmers and with Buckland that the six days were simply natural days of twenty - four hours each , that they had ...
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... once closed . Soon the ad- vance sheets began to come ; and as successive portions were received and perused , it became more and more evident that the work was destined not only to extend his fame , but to establish for him new and ...
... once closed . Soon the ad- vance sheets began to come ; and as successive portions were received and perused , it became more and more evident that the work was destined not only to extend his fame , but to establish for him new and ...
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... once to his great name and to the cause of truth , to lay fully before the public a statement of the most mournful circumstances under which he has departed from this life . For some months past his over- tasked intellect had given ...
... once to his great name and to the cause of truth , to lay fully before the public a statement of the most mournful circumstances under which he has departed from this life . For some months past his over- tasked intellect had given ...
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... once established . Men of science , however , though acknowledging the graphic and elegant diction of his descriptions , had some doubts as to their truth- fulness . Indeed , by some geologists they were cast aside as fanciful , and ...
... once established . Men of science , however , though acknowledging the graphic and elegant diction of his descriptions , had some doubts as to their truth- fulness . Indeed , by some geologists they were cast aside as fanciful , and ...
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... once shone out , and his abundant information and philosophical acuteness were only less remarkable than his amiable disposition , his generous spirit , and his consistent , humble piety . Literature and science have lost in him one of ...
... once shone out , and his abundant information and philosophical acuteness were only less remarkable than his amiable disposition , his generous spirit , and his consistent , humble piety . Literature and science have lost in him one of ...
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Page 229 - 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 37 - 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 138 - So careful of the type?' but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go. Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death: The spirit does but mean the breath: I know no more.
Page 233 - 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 262 - 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 225 - Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing ? And one of them shall not fall to the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore ; ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Page 138 - 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 198 - said God ; and forthwith Light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the Deep, and from her native East To journey through the aery gloom began, Sphered in a radiant cloud — for yet the Sun Was not; she in a cloudy tabernacle Sojourned the while.
Page 210 - Sing heavenly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...