Elements of GeologyHarper & Brothers, 1859 - 354 sivua |
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Sivu 346 - gan war, and fowl with fowl, And fish with fish ; to graze the herb all leaving, Devoured each other; nor stood much in awe Of man, but fled him, or with countenance grim Glared on him passing.
Sivu 350 - Great and marvellous are Thy works, Lord God Almighty ! In wisdom hast Thou made them all.
Sivu 346 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Sivu 78 - To adamant by their petrific touch. Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives, Their masonry imperishable. All Life's needful functions, food, exertion, rest, By nice economy of Providence, Were overruled, to carry on the process Which out of water brought forth solid rock.
Sivu 346 - Some say, he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth, twice ten degrees and more, From the sun's axle ; they with labour push'd Oblique the centric globe.
Sivu 345 - By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death has passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.
Sivu 57 - For three weeks this terrific river disgorged itself into the sea with little abatement Multitudes of fishes were killed, and the waters of the ocean were heated for twenty miles along the coast The breadth of the stream, where it fell into the sea, is about half a mile, but inland it varies from one to four or five miles in width, conforming itself, like a river , to the face of the country over which it flowed.
Sivu 311 - It is marvellous that mankind should have gone on for so many centuries in ignorance of the fact, which is now so fully demonstrated, that no small part of the present surface of the earth is derived from the remains of animals, that constituted the population of ancient seas.