Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age. Christian Pamphlets - Page 4991810Full view - About this book
| 1864 - 940 pages
...and bore The solid earth, and from (he strata there Extract a register, by which we learn That lie who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age." and even the remark of Alexander Brozniart : J "If any suppose themselves of sufficient knowledge of... | |
| William Cowper - 1846 - 310 pages
...all his purposes, and charge His mind with meanings that he never had, Or, having, kept conceal'd. Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the...register, by which we learn, That he who made it and revcal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age. Some, more acute, and more industrious still;... | |
| 1846 - 436 pages
...geologists, who have certainly often unwisely and hastily generalized, be exclaims, ' Some drill and boro The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who mode it, and revealed its Halo To Mosee, was mistaken in its age.' This is severe, but, in its general... | |
| 1846 - 586 pages
...generalized, he exclaims, ' Some drill and bore The «olid earth, and from (he strata there Kxtroct a register, by which we, learn. That he who made it. and revealed ita dato To Moses, was mistaken m its age.' This is severe, but, in its general application, unjust.... | |
| William Cowper - 1847 - 556 pages
...all his purposes, and charge His mind with meanings that he never had, Or, having, kept conceal' d. Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the...register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age. Some, more acute, and more industrious still,... | |
| William Cowper - 1849 - 508 pages
...all his purposes, and chargw His mind with meanings that he never had, Or, having, kept concealed. Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the...Moses, was mistaken in its age. Some, more acute, and more industrious still, Contrive creation ; travel nature up To the sharp peak of her sublirm st height,... | |
| 1886 - 664 pages
...religionist William Cowper had some years before (1782) launched his little thunderbolt against those who Drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata...by which we learn That He who made it and revealed ita date To Moses was mistaken in its age. But in 1797 scientific controversy itself had adopted the... | |
| William Cowper - 1849 - 740 pages
...Popr. .Essay on Crlt. \\». 210 THE TASK. [BOOK in. Or having, kept conceal'd. Some drill and bore 150 The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract...register, by which we learn That He who made it and reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age. Some more acute and more industrious still 155... | |
| Thomas Lockerby - 1850 - 842 pages
...Even real facts and demonstrations are not equivalent to — Thus saith the Lord. Cowper only said, Some drill and bore the solid earth ; and from the...revealed its date to Moses, was mistaken in its age. If anything ever called science shall, directly or indirectly, oppose the Bible, it is profane, and... | |
| John Dick - 1850 - 560 pages
...place upon it after some terrible convulsion. Thus, according to the words of a celebrated poet, — " Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the...revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age." * This is manifestly a subject beyond the reach of our faculties; and geology^ as sometimes conducted,... | |
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