The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and RevealedGould and Lincoln, 1857 - 502 páginas |
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The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two ... Hugh Miller Visualização integral - 1857 |
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Acrogens ages ancient animals anti-geologists appearance argument bear beds birds Carboniferous character Christian cloth club mosses Coal Measures Coccosteus coniferous conifers creation creatures deluge deposits developed dicotyledonous Divine division earth elephant Eocene evidence exhibited existing extinct fact feet ferns fishes Flood flora forests formations fossil fronds furnished geologic geologist globe greatly heavens Helmsdale Hugh Miller human hundred hyænas Illustrations inches known labors land least length Lepidodendron living Lower Old Red mammals mayhap Miocene Mosaic nature occur ocean Old Red Sandstone Oolitic organisms original Paleozoic peculiar period plants portion present principle race regarded remains remarkable represented reptiles resembles revelation rocks says scarce Scotland Scripture seems shells Sigillaria Silurian species specimen Sphenopteris stems surface Tertiary theologians thousand tion trees true truth Turrettine upper vegetable vision writer Zamia
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Página 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.
Página 268 - Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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...
Página 261 - The decrees of God are, his eternal purpose according to the counsel of his will, whereby, for his own glory, he hath fore-ordained whatsoever comes to pass.
Página 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.
Página 139 - 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.
Página 263 - 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...