A Comparative Estimate of the Mineral and Mosaical Geologies, Volume 2J. Duncan, 1825 "Received well in religious circles, this work was severely censored as an unscientific attempt to treat the Book of Genesis as a manual of geology" - DNB. |
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Pagina vii
... CAMEL OF ARABIA - CAUSE OF THIS WONDERFUL YET UNNO- TICED PHENOMENON 200 CHAPTER XIII . OF THE EXERCISE OF CREATIVE POWER ON THE NEW OR PRESENT , AS ON THE PRIMITIVE EARTH : -TWO UNIVERSAL EXERCISES ONLY OF THAT POWER ON OUR GLOBE ...
... CAMEL OF ARABIA - CAUSE OF THIS WONDERFUL YET UNNO- TICED PHENOMENON 200 CHAPTER XIII . OF THE EXERCISE OF CREATIVE POWER ON THE NEW OR PRESENT , AS ON THE PRIMITIVE EARTH : -TWO UNIVERSAL EXERCISES ONLY OF THAT POWER ON OUR GLOBE ...
Pagina 201
... Arabian camel , or the camel with one hunch ; for , of the Bactrian camel , with two hunches , we know that the race now exists in a wild state in Tar- tary ' , ( where was the ancient Bactria , ) and in the north of China . " Both the ...
... Arabian camel , or the camel with one hunch ; for , of the Bactrian camel , with two hunches , we know that the race now exists in a wild state in Tar- tary ' , ( where was the ancient Bactria , ) and in the north of China . " Both the ...
Pagina 202
... Arabian camel exists no where in a wild state . This singular and mysterious animal , from the earliest periods of Asiatic history , has constituted a principal part of the wealth of the regions in which it is pos- sessed . Buffon's ...
... Arabian camel exists no where in a wild state . This singular and mysterious animal , from the earliest periods of Asiatic history , has constituted a principal part of the wealth of the regions in which it is pos- sessed . Buffon's ...
Pagina 205
... camel in peculiar veneration , accounting it a sacred animal , a gift of God to man ; the origin of which tradi ... Arabia . " - PLIN . Nat . Hist . lib . viii . cap . 26. Hardouin . 2 " Les Arabes regardent le Chameau comme un présent ...
... camel in peculiar veneration , accounting it a sacred animal , a gift of God to man ; the origin of which tradi ... Arabia . " - PLIN . Nat . Hist . lib . viii . cap . 26. Hardouin . 2 " Les Arabes regardent le Chameau comme un présent ...
Pagina 206
... Arabian camel , the author states : " the Arabian camel is chiefly " found in a wild state in the deserts of Arabia " and Africa , and in the temperate parts of " Asia . It is that with a single hunch on its back . " In many parts of ...
... Arabian camel , the author states : " the Arabian camel is chiefly " found in a wild state in the deserts of Arabia " and Africa , and in the temperate parts of " Asia . It is that with a single hunch on its back . " In many parts of ...
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Pagina 8 - And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth ; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Pagina 238 - And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden ; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food ; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Pagina 214 - As the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee...
Pagina 246 - 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...
Pagina 18 - And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Pagina 181 - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the sea ; yet the sea is not full ; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Pagina 212 - And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee ; they shall be male and female.
Pagina 130 - They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Pagina 19 - And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
Pagina 341 - I have stated, that the total quantity of animal matter that lies within this cavern cannot be computed at less than 5000 cubic feet. Now, allowing two cubic feet of dust and bones for each individual...