An Investigation of the Theories of the Natural History of ManBaker & Scribner, 1848 - 739 pages |
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... descendants , by being driven out a " fu- gitive and a vagabond ? " It may also be asked , if Adam and Eve were the only created human beings , at that time , where did Cain get his wife , which he had in the land of Nod ? He took none ...
... descendants , by being driven out a " fu- gitive and a vagabond ? " It may also be asked , if Adam and Eve were the only created human beings , at that time , where did Cain get his wife , which he had in the land of Nod ? He took none ...
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... descendants are wholly enumerated . Noah had three sons ; Japheth , seven ; Ham , four ; and Shem , five ; which is a fraction under five for each of these patriarchs , which certainly does not mark a " peculiar fecundity . " Adam and ...
... descendants are wholly enumerated . Noah had three sons ; Japheth , seven ; Ham , four ; and Shem , five ; which is a fraction under five for each of these patriarchs , which certainly does not mark a " peculiar fecundity . " Adam and ...
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... descendants of Adam and Seth , as distinguished from Cain and his descendants ; but these men , or " giants " cannot , without an improbable supposition , be referred to Cain , as their progenitor ; because four generations , from Cain ...
... descendants of Adam and Seth , as distinguished from Cain and his descendants ; but these men , or " giants " cannot , without an improbable supposition , be referred to Cain , as their progenitor ; because four generations , from Cain ...
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... descendants of Adam were called " the Sons of God , " not only to distinguish them from the children of men and giants , but , probably , because they were cre- ated in the moral and intellectual image of God . This likeness could not ...
... descendants of Adam were called " the Sons of God , " not only to distinguish them from the children of men and giants , but , probably , because they were cre- ated in the moral and intellectual image of God . This likeness could not ...
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... descendants of Adam , except Noah and family , were destroyed , there may have been others , in other parts of the earth , who escaped . - We will not consume time with a farther exami- nation of this subject , as we place no reliance ...
... descendants of Adam , except Noah and family , were destroyed , there may have been others , in other parts of the earth , who escaped . - We will not consume time with a farther exami- nation of this subject , as we place no reliance ...
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Page 439 - In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar, if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, woman has ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so ; and to add to this virtue, so worthy of the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry ate the coarse...
Page 62 - SCRIPTURE AND GEOLOGY; On the Relation between the Holy Scriptures and some parts of Geological Science.
Page 134 - 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.
Page 60 - 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,
Page 438 - I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men ; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest...
Page 444 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 86 - But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa ; and he found a ship going to Tarshish : so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
Page 438 - I never addressed myself, in the language of decency and friendship, to a woman, whether civilized or savage, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise.
Page 52 - I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 115 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.