Origines Sacrae Or a Rational Account of the Grounds of Natural and Revealed Religion: To which is Added Part of Another Book Upon the Same Subject, Left Unfinished by the Author : Together with a Letter to a Deist, Volume 2University Press, 1836 - 542 pages |
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... earth and animals ; no necessity of asserting either . V. Yet supposing the possibility of it demonstrated with- VI . Of the fountains of the deep . out creation of new waters . The proportion which the height of mountains bears to the ...
... earth and animals ; no necessity of asserting either . V. Yet supposing the possibility of it demonstrated with- VI . Of the fountains of the deep . out creation of new waters . The proportion which the height of mountains bears to the ...
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... earth . No mountains much above three miles per- pendicular . Of the origin of fountains . The opinion of Aristotle and others concerning it discussed . The true account of them from the vapours arising from the mass of subterraneous ...
... earth . No mountains much above three miles per- pendicular . Of the origin of fountains . The opinion of Aristotle and others concerning it discussed . The true account of them from the vapours arising from the mass of subterraneous ...
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... earth was without form and void , Gen. i . 2 . and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters , i . e . that all at first was but fluid matter ; for P. Fagius , from R. Kimchi , renders л by λŋ , which fluid matter was agitated ...
... earth was without form and void , Gen. i . 2 . and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters , i . e . that all at first was but fluid matter ; for P. Fagius , from R. Kimchi , renders л by λŋ , which fluid matter was agitated ...
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... earth , in the first verse of Genesis , we are not to understand the visible heavens and earth ; for , saith he , the heavens , which are called the firmament , were created after ; and on the third day , when the waters were separated ...
... earth , in the first verse of Genesis , we are not to understand the visible heavens and earth ; for , saith he , the heavens , which are called the firmament , were created after ; and on the third day , when the waters were separated ...
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... earth , as in Europe , Asia , and Africa , would never meet ( if they continued their mo- tion ) in the centre of the earth , but would continue their motion still in a parallel line ; and so he ima- gined that which is said to be above ...
... earth , as in Europe , Asia , and Africa , would never meet ( if they continued their mo- tion ) in the centre of the earth , but would continue their motion still in a parallel line ; and so he ima- gined that which is said to be above ...
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