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 pàgines |
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Pàgina 34
... thofe , the reft which are lighter being fo very rarely found , ] can reasonably be fuppofed to have happened by meer Chance , with this Conftancy Conftancy and Certainty , and that in So many and 34 The Natural History.
... thofe , the reft which are lighter being fo very rarely found , ] can reasonably be fuppofed to have happened by meer Chance , with this Conftancy Conftancy and Certainty , and that in So many and 34 The Natural History.
Pàgina 49
... that fuch in earnest never happened ; but that the Bounds of Sea and Land have been more fix'd and permanent : and , in fhort , that the Terraqueous Globe is to to this Day nearly in the fame Con- dition that Part I. of the Earth . 49.
... that fuch in earnest never happened ; but that the Bounds of Sea and Land have been more fix'd and permanent : and , in fhort , that the Terraqueous Globe is to to this Day nearly in the fame Con- dition that Part I. of the Earth . 49.
Pàgina 72
... Progenitors had feen and felt their Fury . And thefe happening nearer Home , and their Effects being fresh , and in all Mens Mouths , they made fo fo fenfible and lafting Impreffions upon their Minds , that 72 The Natural History Part I.
... Progenitors had feen and felt their Fury . And thefe happening nearer Home , and their Effects being fresh , and in all Mens Mouths , they made fo fo fenfible and lafting Impreffions upon their Minds , that 72 The Natural History Part I.
Pàgina 86
... happened generaly , and as near as poffibly could be expected in fo great a Confufion , according to * Confer the Laws of Gravity ; that Matter , . , . Body , or Bodyes , which had the greatest Quantity or Degree of Gra- vity ...
... happened generaly , and as near as poffibly could be expected in fo great a Confufion , according to * Confer the Laws of Gravity ; that Matter , . , . Body , or Bodyes , which had the greatest Quantity or Degree of Gra- vity ...
Pàgina 87
... happened that Bodyes of quite different Kinds fubfided at the fame Inftant , fell together into , and compofed the fame Stratum . That for this Reafon the Shells of those Cockles , Efcalops , Perewinkles , and the reft , which have a ...
... happened that Bodyes of quite different Kinds fubfided at the fame Inftant , fell together into , and compofed the fame Stratum . That for this Reafon the Shells of those Cockles , Efcalops , Perewinkles , and the reft , which have a ...
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An Essay Towards a Natural History of the Earth,: And Terrestrial Bodyes ... John Woodward Visualització 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
Passatges populars
Pàgina 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,
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 251 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 74 - Gravity finking not down till laffof all, fettling at the Surface of the Sediment, and. covering all the reft. That the. Matter...
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...