The Course of CreationW. H. Moore & Company, 1851 - 374 psl. |
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abundant Agassiz ancient animal appear arrangements basalt basin beds belong betwixt calcareous carboniferous cephalaspis chain chalk character clay coal coal-field coal-measures coccosteus consist constitute contains creation creatures crust crystalline deposits detected devonian district Divine Dura dykes earth elevation entire epoch existing extended extinct feet feldspar Fifeshire fishes flora formation fossil fossiliferous genera genus geological epoch geologist geology globe gneiss Grampian range Grampians granite graywacke greenstone hills Holoptychius hundred igneous inclosed island lakes land limestone mass materials matter metals miles mineral mountains nature nearly ocean Ochils old red sandstone oolitic organic remains origin Pamphractus period plants plates porphyries position present produced Pterichthys range remarkable resembling ridges rivers rocks sand scales schist shales shells silurian slate species specimens stone strata structure surface tertiary thickness things tion traced tribes trilobites types valley vast vegetable waters wealden whole
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355 psl. - And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
86 psl. - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled ; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
351 psl. - And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
121 psl. - And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar...
227 psl. - Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
93 psl. - Space may produce new worlds; whereof so rife There went a fame in Heaven that he ere long Intended to create, and therein plant A generation whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the Sons of Heaven.
89 psl. - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
355 psl. - 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,
156 psl. - Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left ; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream still let me stray, Though none should guide my feeble way ; Still feel the breeze down Ettrick break, Although it chill my withered cheek ; Still lay my head by Teviot stone, Though there, forgotten...
356 psl. - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.