 | 1829 - 664 pages
...not watered by rain, but by mist. " For the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth" — " But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground." And for ought that appears, the earth was thus watered until the time of the universal deluge ; in... | |
 | 1829 - 308 pages
...MILTON found " mists and exhalations " in the region of Eden. His authority is GENESIS ii. 6. Bilt there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. It is wonderful how little fog there is about the writings of antiquity, even those of HESIOD, PINDAR,... | |
 | 1829 - 930 pages
...dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air," &c. — Gen i. 26. " But there went np a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, aud breathed ¡HID his nostrils the breath of... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1830 - 304 pages
...the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the «arth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath... | |
 | John Murray - 1831 - 324 pages
...change in the hygrometric character of the circumfused atmosphere. The Hebrew prophet informs us, — " There went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground;" — a simple and beautiful solution of the phenomena of evaporation, and the formation of dew : the... | |
 | 1831 - 676 pages
...the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind, and i of good and evil. « But there went np a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 7 And the LORD God formed man <>/ the dust of th»' ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath... | |
 | Robert Taylor (incumbent of Hartlepool.) - 1832 - 262 pages
...In the second chapter of Genesis it is said," The Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground." From this it may be inferred, there was no rain before the Flood. Soon after Noah had removed the covering... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon 6 the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the 7 ground. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the... | |
 | John Newland Maffitt - 1832 - 254 pages
...of drought when there was not a man to till the ground ? Simply and sublimely this : — Ther&went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. The first white vapor that ever exhaled from shore and fountain and flood was seen creeping along the... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1832 - 400 pages
...grew : for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, ancTtbere was not a man to till H. 6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the wh.ilt: face of the ground. 7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into... | |
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God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew : for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till, the ground. But there... 
