 | 1832 - 646 Seiten
...read my recantation. " We onght, indeed, to have paused before we first adopted thediluvian tlieory> and referred all our old superficial gravel to the...unknown formations under one name ; in giving them a simnlr taneous origin, and in determining their date, not by the organic remains we had discovered,... | |
 | John Kidd - 1833 - 292 Seiten
...action : though we ought in philosophical caution to have hesitated in adopting that opinion, because " among the remnants of a former world, entombed in these ancient deposits, we have not yet found a single trace of man, or of the works of his hands." Page 34. Lastly, he strenuously... | |
 | 1837 - 1068 Seiten
...one violent and transitory period." " We ought to have paused before we first adopted the diluvian theory, and referred all our old superficial gravel to the action of the Mosaic Hood, etc." ft Are then the facts of our science opposed to the sacred records ? And do we deny the... | |
 | 1837 - 548 Seiten
...one violent and transitory period." " We ought to have paused before we first adopted the diluvian theory, and referred all our old superficial gravel to the action of the Mosaic flood, etc." " Are then the facts of our science opposed to the sacred records ? And do we deny the reality... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1850 - 842 Seiten
...paused, says the indomitable Sedgwick, before we first adopted the diluvian theory, and referred all our superficial gravel to the action of the Mosaic flood....former world, entombed in these ancient deposits. The vast masses of diluvial gravel scattered over almost the surface of the earth, (no mean evidence,... | |
 | Jonathan Bayley (Rev. DD.) - 1858 - 660 Seiten
...publicly to read my RECANTATION. We ought, indeed, to have paused before we first adopted the diluvian theory, and referred all our old superficial gravel...for of man, and the works of his hands, we have not found A SINGLE TRACE among the remnants of a former world entombed in these ancient deposits." With... | |
 | Elias De la Roche Rendell - 1864 - 352 Seiten
...publicly read his recantation, and said we ought to have paused before we adopted the diluvian theory ; " for of man, and the works of his hands, we have not found a single trace among the remnants of a former world entombed in these ancient deposits." The... | |
 | John Ellis - 1882 - 264 Seiten
...publicly to read my RECANTATION. We ought, indeed, to have paused before we first adopted the diluvian theory, and referred all our old superficial gravel...for of man, and the works of his hands, we have not found a SINGLE TKACE among the remnants of a former world entombed in these ancient deposits.' " Some... | |
 | John Ellis - 1882 - 280 Seiten
...superficial gravel to the action of the Mosaic flood : for of man, and the works of his hands, we have not found a SINGLE TRACE among the remnants of a former world entombed in these ancient deposits.' " Some cling to the literal account of the flood, because they find traditions among many ancient nations... | |
 | John Ellis - 1886 - 328 Seiten
...publicly to read my RECANTATION. We ought, indeed, to have paused before we first adopted the diluvian theory, and referred all our old superficial gravel...for of man, and the works of his hands, we have not found a SINGLE TRACE among the remnants of a former world entombed in these ancient deposits.' " Some... | |
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We ought, indeed, to have paused, before we first adopted the diluvial theory, and referred all our old superficial gravel to the action of the Mosaic Flood. For of man, and the works of his hands, we have not yet found a single trace among the remnants... 
