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... mountains discloses their interior construction ; wherever native caverns and fissures reveal the disposition of the component materials ; wherever the operations of the miner have pierced the suc- cessive layers , beneath which coal or ...
... mountains discloses their interior construction ; wherever native caverns and fissures reveal the disposition of the component materials ; wherever the operations of the miner have pierced the suc- cessive layers , beneath which coal or ...
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... mountain , it soon resumed its antient beauty and fertility . " It is equally possible that by dif- ferent fluctuations and vicissitudes of the waters of the deluge , successive strata of various sub- stances might be accumulated within ...
... mountain , it soon resumed its antient beauty and fertility . " It is equally possible that by dif- ferent fluctuations and vicissitudes of the waters of the deluge , successive strata of various sub- stances might be accumulated within ...
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... mountains of Dauria , on the south - east of Siberia , are so dislocated , that miners cannot cal- ' culate the position or the direction of a vein ; but are constrained to pursue their works at ha- zardt . The strata in the mountains ...
... mountains of Dauria , on the south - east of Siberia , are so dislocated , that miners cannot cal- ' culate the position or the direction of a vein ; but are constrained to pursue their works at ha- zardt . The strata in the mountains ...
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... mountains exterior to the great ridge of the Andes , that the disposition of the strata varies greatly in different places ; and that in these de- rangements the laws of gravitation are seldom observed , as the substance which in one ...
... mountains exterior to the great ridge of the Andes , that the disposition of the strata varies greatly in different places ; and that in these de- rangements the laws of gravitation are seldom observed , as the substance which in one ...
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... mountains of similar stone are known to exist within any such distance as to account by common causes for the position of the frag- ments , or to exist at all . Thus innumerable masses of granite lie detached in the country near the ...
... mountains of similar stone are known to exist within any such distance as to account by common causes for the position of the frag- ments , or to exist at all . Thus innumerable masses of granite lie detached in the country near the ...
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Page 238 - I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so ; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
Page 120 - If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men ; then the Lord hath not sent me. But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit ; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.
Page 239 - For of a truth, against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together, for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
Page 252 - For scarcely for a righteous man will one die ; yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Page 154 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat :
Page 65 - All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 139 - And the Lord God having formed out of the ground all the beasts of the earth, and all the fowls of the air, brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: for whatsoever Adam called any living creature the same is its name.
Page 154 - ... 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...