The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 59Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1862 |
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... Moses in New - York , and a cigar thrust in a rakish , swaggering style in the corner of his mouth ! What a pretty picture he makes , gazing affectionately and patronizingly at the burnished speaking- trumpet before him ! A chivalrous ...
... Moses in New - York , and a cigar thrust in a rakish , swaggering style in the corner of his mouth ! What a pretty picture he makes , gazing affectionately and patronizingly at the burnished speaking- trumpet before him ! A chivalrous ...
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... Moses was not a professor of geology . Being learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians , perhaps he was an emeritus in chemistry . If so , he knew that such elements as nitre and silica could not be fused by the ignition of an Arabian ...
... Moses was not a professor of geology . Being learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians , perhaps he was an emeritus in chemistry . If so , he knew that such elements as nitre and silica could not be fused by the ignition of an Arabian ...
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... to Hugh Miller , the vision of creation , as presented to the mind of Moses , began . - Suppose that at the time when the earth was enveloped in this ocean of VOL . LIX . 16 vapor , an observer , possessed of the same powers 1862. ] 239.
... to Hugh Miller , the vision of creation , as presented to the mind of Moses , began . - Suppose that at the time when the earth was enveloped in this ocean of VOL . LIX . 16 vapor , an observer , possessed of the same powers 1862. ] 239.
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... Moses speaks of ' the waters . ' ' The spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters . ' And again , GOD , by interposing the firmament , ' divided the waters from the waters . At that time all the water of the globe was in a state of ...
... Moses speaks of ' the waters . ' ' The spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters . ' And again , GOD , by interposing the firmament , ' divided the waters from the waters . At that time all the water of the globe was in a state of ...
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... Moses assigns to the ' gathering together of the waters , ' and the appearance of the dry land , in the order of the stupendous phenomena mentioned in the first chapter of the Bible , is the very one in which it must naturally have ...
... Moses assigns to the ' gathering together of the waters , ' and the appearance of the dry land , in the order of the stupendous phenomena mentioned in the first chapter of the Bible , is the very one in which it must naturally have ...
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