The Course of CreationW. H. Moore & Company, 1851 - 374 pages |
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Agassiz ancient animal appear arrangements basalt basin beds belong betwixt bones calcareous carboniferous causes cephalaspis chain chalk changes character clay coal coal-field coal-measures coccosteus consist constitute contains course of creation creatures crust crustaceans crystalline deposits detected devonian district Divine earth elevation entire Eocene existing extended extinct feet feldspar fishes flora formation fossil fossiliferous genera genus geological epochs geologist geology globe gneiss Grampians granite greenstone Hence hills Holoptychius hundred igneous inclosed island lakes land limestone marine mass materials matter miles mineral mountains nature nearly ocean old red sandstone oolitic organic remains origin period phenomena plants pleiocene porphyries present prevailed produced Pterichthys quadrupeds races remarkable reptiles resemblance rivers rocks sand scale shells silurian species specimens strata structure surface terrestrial tertiary thickness things thousand tion traced tribes trilobites types valleys various vast vegetable volcanic waters wealden whole
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Page 121 - And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar...
Page 86 - 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.
Page 228 - Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Page 89 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Page 93 - Space may produce new worlds; whereof so rife There went a fame in Heaven that he ere long Intended to create, and therein plant A generation whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the Sons of Heaven.
Page 315 - Or bright infers not excellence : the earth Though, in comparison of heaven, so small, Nor glistering, may of solid good contain More plenty than the sun that barren shines...
Page 352 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 357 - 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 156 - ... band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left ; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream still let me stray, Though none should guide my feeble way ; Still feel the breeze down Ettrick break, Although it chill my withered cheek ; Still lay my head by Teviot stone, Though there, forgotten and alone, The Bard...
Page 86 - They go up by the mountains; They go down by the valleys Unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.