An Essay Towards a Natural History of the Earth, and Terrestrial Bodies, Especially Minerals: As Also of the Sea, Rivers, and Springs. With an Account of the Universal Deluge: and of the Effects that it Had Upon the EarthA. Bettesworth and W. Taylor ... R. Gosling ... and J. Clarke, 1723 - 304 Seiten |
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... Reasons which induced me to make it pub lick , I fhall not here keep the Reader in Sufpenfe much longer than while I acquaint him that , propofing to draw a confiderable Number of Materials into fo narrow a Compass that they might all ...
... Reasons which induced me to make it pub lick , I fhall not here keep the Reader in Sufpenfe much longer than while I acquaint him that , propofing to draw a confiderable Number of Materials into fo narrow a Compass that they might all ...
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... 'd ; they being , in all Refpects , a far more excellent and ufefull Invention . We fee therefore that there were feveral Reasons why those early A- ges ges could not tranfmitt Accounts of the State of the Part I. of the Earth . 61.
... 'd ; they being , in all Refpects , a far more excellent and ufefull Invention . We fee therefore that there were feveral Reasons why those early A- ges ges could not tranfmitt Accounts of the State of the Part I. of the Earth . 61.
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... Reason to affent , untill , by a deliberate and careful Examina- tion of all Circumstances of these Marine Bodyes , I was abundantly convinced that they could not have come into thofe Circumftances by any other Means than fuch a ...
... Reason to affent , untill , by a deliberate and careful Examina- tion of all Circumstances of these Marine Bodyes , I was abundantly convinced that they could not have come into thofe Circumftances by any other Means than fuch a ...
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... Reason why ' twas inflicted : and to their Pofterity , for a few Generations 3 the Fright was not lafting : ' twas not long c'er the Sting of it was worn out . And though the Elder Ages knew full well that there had been fuch a De- luge ...
... Reason why ' twas inflicted : and to their Pofterity , for a few Generations 3 the Fright was not lafting : ' twas not long c'er the Sting of it was worn out . And though the Elder Ages knew full well that there had been fuch a De- luge ...
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... Reasons , there could be no Doubt but that there was fome real and very neceffary Caufe for the making that Alteration . Nor was fuch a Caufe very hard to be found out . The first Earth was fuited to the first State of Mankind , who ...
... Reasons , there could be no Doubt but that there was fome real and very neceffary Caufe for the making that Alteration . Nor was fuch a Caufe very hard to be found out . The first Earth was fuited to the first State of Mankind , who ...
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Abyss afcends alfo amongst Animals becauſe Belemnites Bodyes Caufe Chalk cialy Conf Confect confequently Confer confiderable confift Confoli Conftitution Corpufcles Countryes Curfe Defign Deluge Earth Earthquakes efpecialy faid fame felf fent ferve feve feveral fhall fhew fhould Fiffures fince firft firſt Fluid folid fome fometimes ftanding ftill fubfiding fuch fuppofe fupra Globe hath Heat Kinds laft leaft leffer lefs likewife lodg'd lodged luge Mafs Mankind Marble meerly metallick and mineral Metalls and Minerals mineral Matter Mofes moft moſt Mountains muft naturaly neral Nitre Number Obfervations Occafion Paffage paffes pafs Pebles perpendicular Intervalls Place poffibly prefent Promptuary Quantity raifed Rain raiſed Reafon reft Sand Sect Spar Spiracles Springs and Rivers Strata of Stone Stratum Sulphur Surface Terreftrial Matter thefe themſelves ther Therma theſe Things thofe Strata thoſe tion twas ufualy univerfal unto vaft Vapour Vegetables Vitriol Volcanoes Water whereof whilft whole
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 274 - 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,
Seite 253 - 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. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Seite 255 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Seite 273 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Seite 251 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Seite 101 - And the LORD smelled a sweet savour ; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Seite 74 - Gravity finking not down till laffof all, fettling at the Surface of the Sediment, and. covering all the reft. That the. Matter...
Seite 185 - ... corpuscles which lye loose in its way, and are withal so small as to be able to pass those interstices ; forcing them along with it into the perpendicular intervalls ; to which it naturally directs its course, as finding there a ready exit and discharge, being partly exhaled thence up into the atmosphere, and partly flowing forth upon the surface of the earth, and forming springs and rivers. " That the water which falls upon the surface of the earth in rain, bears also some, tho...
Seite 88 - 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.
Seite 21 - Particles thereof, together with those of the Earth, Chalk, and the rest, as also Shells, and all other Animal and Vegetable Bodies, were taken up into, and sustained in, the Water ; that at length all these subsided again promiscuously, and without any other order than that of the different...