The Physical and Moral Aspects of Geology: Containing the Leading Facts and Principles of the Science, and a Discussion of the Great Moral Questions Growing Out of Modern Geological DiscoveriesJ. Challen & Son, 1861 - 399 sider |
Andre udgaver - Se alle
The Physical and Moral Aspects of Geology: Containing the Leading Facts and ... William J. Barbee Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2018 |
The Physical and Moral Aspects of Geology: Containing the Leading Facts and ... William J Barbee Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2015 |
The Physical and Moral Aspects of Geology: Containing the Leading Facts and ... William J Barbee Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2023 |
Almindelige termer og sætninger
Acrogens ages alluvial alluvium alumine Ammonite ancient animals beds belong Bible bones bottom Brachiopods calcareous carbonate Carboniferous Cephalopods Chalk CHAPTER clay coal coast combination contains coral cotemporary creation Cretaceous Crinoids crust crustaceans cycads delta deluge deposits Devonian Drift earth embrace Eocene epoch examination exhibit existence extinct Fauna feet feldspar ferns fishes flood formation fossil fossiliferous genus geologist geology globe granite gravel Gulf human hundred islands JAMES CHALLEN land lime limestone living Lyell mammals marine marl mastodon matter miles mineral Miocene Mississippi molluscous moral mountains natural notice observation ocean Oolite organic remains oxygen Paleozoic period Permian petrifaction physical Placoids plain plants Plesiosaurus pre-Adamite present principles quadrupeds quartz Radiates reptiles river rocks sand Sandstone Saurians shells Silurian skeleton species strata stratified stream substances surface Tertiary thousand tion trees Trilobite upheaval vegetable Vertebrates volcanoes Wealden whole
Populære passager
Side 375 - By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
Side 69 - The cataract strong Then plunges along, Striking and raging, As if a war waging Its caverns and rocks among: Rising and leaping, Sinking and creeping, Swelling and sweeping, Showering and springing, Flying and flinging, Writhing and ringing, Eddying and whisking. Spouting and frisking Turning and twisting, Around and around With endless rebound: Smiting and fighting, A sight to delight in, Confounding, astounding, Dizzying and deafening the ear with its sound...
Side 82 - There is a river in the ocean: in the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows; its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm; the Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream. There is in the world no other such majestic flow of waters. Its current is more rapid than the Mississippi or the Amazon, and its volume more than a thousand times greater.
Side 375 - God ; being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit ; By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison, which sometime were disobedient, when once the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water...
Side 346 - Praise ye him, sun and moon : Praise him, all ye stars of light. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, And ye waters that be above the heavens. Let them praise the name of the LORD: For he commanded, and they were created.
Side 27 - 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...
Side 189 - Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
Side 170 - Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Side 387 - Or does he ever say, that there was not an interval of many ages betwixt the first act of creation, described in the first verse of the book of Genesis, and said to have been performed at the beginning; and those more detailed operations, the account of which commences at the second verse, and which are described to us as having been performed in so many days?
Side 375 - For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly...