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Side vi
... seems impossible to reconcile the Divine attribute of truthfulness with any other intention ) , a serious strain upon faith must arise . More- over , experience has proved that the severity of this strain tends to increase , and in an ...
... seems impossible to reconcile the Divine attribute of truthfulness with any other intention ) , a serious strain upon faith must arise . More- over , experience has proved that the severity of this strain tends to increase , and in an ...
Side viii
... seems likely to end in disaster . It is easy to say , and sounds plausible , that the Bible was not meant to teach anything but ethics and religion , and that its utterances on other matters are mere obiter dicta ; it is also a specious ...
... seems likely to end in disaster . It is easy to say , and sounds plausible , that the Bible was not meant to teach anything but ethics and religion , and that its utterances on other matters are mere obiter dicta ; it is also a specious ...
Side 26
... seems to be no limit to the multi- tude of mammalian remains to be expected from that continent ; and analogy leads us to expect similar riches in Eastern Asia , whenever the Tertiary formations of that region are as carefully explored ...
... seems to be no limit to the multi- tude of mammalian remains to be expected from that continent ; and analogy leads us to expect similar riches in Eastern Asia , whenever the Tertiary formations of that region are as carefully explored ...
Side 29
... seem , that although such men as Leonardo da Vinci and Bernard Palissy took just views of the nature of fossils , the opinion of the majority of their con- temporaries set strongly the other way ; nor even that error maintained itself ...
... seem , that although such men as Leonardo da Vinci and Bernard Palissy took just views of the nature of fossils , the opinion of the majority of their con- temporaries set strongly the other way ; nor even that error maintained itself ...
Side 48
... seem , is , ; after all , only a probable belief , and that our widest and safest generalisations are simply state- ments of the highest degree of probability . Though we are quite clear about the constancy of the order of Nature , at ...
... seem , is , ; after all , only a probable belief , and that our widest and safest generalisations are simply state- ments of the highest degree of probability . Though we are quite clear about the constancy of the order of Nature , at ...
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Side 195 - And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image ; and called his name Seth...
Side 336 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window and cried through the lattice Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Side 219 - 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 assuaged ; the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained...
Side 290 - Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the Lord is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy ? And the Lord hath done to him as he spake by me : for the Lord hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy neighbour, even to David: because thou obeyedst not the voice of the Lord, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the Lord done this thing unto thee this day.
Side 332 - And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite. And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly : but these sheep, what have they done ? let Thine hand, I pray Thee, be against me, and against my father's house.
Side 290 - Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.
Side 297 - Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, .and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: and they saw the God of Israel...
Side 140 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Side 289 - And Saul answered, I am sore distressed ; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets nor by dreams : therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
Side 195 - OF ADAM. °In the day that °God created °man, in the likeness of °God made He ° Jjtm ; 2 Male and female created He °them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, 1 in the day when they were created.