Cosmogony? or the Records of the Creation. By F. G. S.1858 |
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... ideas and fancies of the different ages . The mechanical and geometrical theory of the celestial bodies , which was founded on erroneous data and misconception , has made many philosophers , like Laplace , complete atheists ; whereas an ...
... ideas and fancies of the different ages . The mechanical and geometrical theory of the celestial bodies , which was founded on erroneous data and misconception , has made many philosophers , like Laplace , complete atheists ; whereas an ...
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... ideas were made into laws founded on optical delusion . Subsequent mathe- maticians , instead of making further observations , more especially in the opposite hemisphere , to ascertain whether it was the fact that the sun appeared there ...
... ideas were made into laws founded on optical delusion . Subsequent mathe- maticians , instead of making further observations , more especially in the opposite hemisphere , to ascertain whether it was the fact that the sun appeared there ...
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... idea on what kind of base the above mathematical and mechanical theory was first founded , to which I beg the reader's most careful and thought- ful attention , and to draw his own inference therefrom . " All bodies with which we are ...
... idea on what kind of base the above mathematical and mechanical theory was first founded , to which I beg the reader's most careful and thought- ful attention , and to draw his own inference therefrom . " All bodies with which we are ...
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... idea of motion in the axis of the globe , and actually attributed the change to a motion in the heavens , owing to the impossibility of making the theory of an oscillating axis agree with the changes observed from time to time by the ...
... idea of motion in the axis of the globe , and actually attributed the change to a motion in the heavens , owing to the impossibility of making the theory of an oscillating axis agree with the changes observed from time to time by the ...
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... idea agrees with the direction of the change , as whether the heavens moved towards the south - east , or the surface of the earth moved towards the northwest , the relative change of the terrestrial and celestial objects would be the ...
... idea agrees with the direction of the change , as whether the heavens moved towards the south - east , or the surface of the earth moved towards the northwest , the relative change of the terrestrial and celestial objects would be the ...
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Página 89 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Página 88 - God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Página 89 - And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven ; and every thing that is in the earth shall die. But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons
Página 78 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Página 71 - O Lord my God, thou art very great ; thou art clothed with honour and majesty. Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain : Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his chariot ; who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Página 87 - Out of the fertile ground he caused to grow All trees of noblest kind for sight, smell, taste; And all amid them stood the tree of life, High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold...
Página 76 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Página 99 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Página 90 - And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
Página 90 - And God remembered Noah and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained...