The Earth and the Word; Or, Geology for Bible Students |
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adapted ages ancient animals Author beds Bible chalk Christian clay cloth coal College coloured comprising containing crag creation creatures cretaceous darkness deposits Devonian Dictionary Divine earth Edinburgh Review Encyclopædia England English Eocene existence fish formation fossils geology granite green sand HARRY HIEOVER heaven HOWITT Illustrations Isle of Wight JAMES MARTINEAU JOHN land layer Letters light limestone London clay Lord MACAULAY'S ESSAY Loudon's lower Maps Memoirs ment mineral Miocene Moab Moore's Irish Melodies morocco morocco by Hayday mountains Natural History numerous nummulitic ocean oolite period phenomena Philosophy physical plants Plates Pliocene Portrait Post 8vo Pre-Adamite present record red sandstone remains ROBERT SOUTHEY rocks sand sandstone Scripture Second Edition Series shells Silurian species Square crown 8vo STEPPING-STONE stone strata surface Swainson's tertiary things Third Edition tion traces Translated Travels truth Upper vegetation verse Vignette vols Volume waters whole Woodcuts
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Page 81 - Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, And turneth the shadow of death into the morning, And maketh the day dark with night: That calleth for the waters of the sea, And poureth them out upon the face of the earth : The Lord is his name: That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, So that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
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Page 83 - Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters." And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament.
Page 87 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
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