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 páginas |
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... raised to an higher Pitch , fo as to furmount the Level of the Seas Surface , they , by that Means , became Iflands and habita- ble ; the faid Tracts being thus ele- vated by Earthquakes , or the like fubterraneous Explofions ; in fuch ...
... raised to an higher Pitch , fo as to furmount the Level of the Seas Surface , they , by that Means , became Iflands and habita- ble ; the faid Tracts being thus ele- vated by Earthquakes , or the like fubterraneous Explofions ; in fuch ...
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... raised out of the Sea , for a Vehicle to this Matter , being by this Means refunded back again into it , and the Matter it felf reftored to its original Fund and Promptuary , the the Earth ; whereby each is re- ftrained , and 52 The ...
... raised out of the Sea , for a Vehicle to this Matter , being by this Means refunded back again into it , and the Matter it felf reftored to its original Fund and Promptuary , the the Earth ; whereby each is re- ftrained , and 52 The ...
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... ing neither advanced one jot further into the Sea for this three or four thousand Years , nor its Surface raised by additional Mud depofed E upon upon it by the yearly Inundations of the Nile . Part I. of the Earth . 53.
... ing neither advanced one jot further into the Sea for this three or four thousand Years , nor its Surface raised by additional Mud depofed E upon upon it by the yearly Inundations of the Nile . Part I. of the Earth . 53.
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... raised out of the Mud born down by the River Peneus : the Islands Echinades , or Curzolari , out of that brought by ... raised . Nay , to fo ftrange a Height of Extravagance do fome , otherwife Learned and Curious Per- fons • fons run ...
... raised out of the Mud born down by the River Peneus : the Islands Echinades , or Curzolari , out of that brought by ... raised . Nay , to fo ftrange a Height of Extravagance do fome , otherwife Learned and Curious Per- fons • fons run ...
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... raised all this Duft amongst the Ancients and upon which prin- cipaly they grounded their Belief of the Viciffitudes and Changes of Sea and Land , wherewith their Writings are fo filled . But how little Reafon they had for it and how ...
... raised all this Duft amongst the Ancients and upon which prin- cipaly they grounded their Belief of the Viciffitudes and Changes of Sea and Land , wherewith their Writings are fo filled . But how little Reafon they had for it and how ...
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An Essay Towards a Natural History of the Earth,: And Terrestrial Bodyes ... John Woodward Visualização completa - 1723 |
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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
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Página 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,
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 251 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Página 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.
Página 74 - Gravity finking not down till laffof all, fettling at the Surface of the Sediment, and. covering all the reft. That the. Matter...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...