 | William Cowper - 1836 - 206 страница
...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 data To Moses, was mistaken in its age. Some, more acute, and more industiious Etill,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 404 страница
...charge His mind with meanings6 that he never had, 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 страница
...charge His mind with meanings6 that he never had, 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... | |
 | 1837 - 352 страница
...occur to some few that we deserve the reproach of the amiable, and pious Cowper, against those who "drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata...revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age."* The professors of geology have too long been open to such reproaches, partly from the misplaced zeal... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 страница
...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 strata there Extract a register, by which we leam, That he who made it, and reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age. Some, more acute,... | |
 | John Dick - 1838 - 564 страница
...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,... | |
 | 1838 - 516 страница
...which the science, which could hardly be said to exist in his time, has made since they were written. " Some drill and bore, The solid earth, and from the...learn, That He who made it, and revealed its date, To Mose", was mistaken in its age." Moses, however, does no such thing as is attributed to him. He tells... | |
 | Thomas Goyder - 1838 - 678 страница
...revealed to Moses creation's date, aims a blow at Geology. In his poem entitled "The Task," he says — " 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." Here the worthy poet was certainly mistaken... | |
 | William Rhind - 1838 - 222 страница
...Christian Theology, vol. i. pp. 355, 356, and 360. NOTE XI. p. 86. THE FIRST FOUR DAYS OF CREATION. Some more acute and more industrious still, Contrive...creation, travel nature up To the sharp peak of her sublimcst heights, And tell us whence the stars ! CowPE&. To those who will form cosmogonies, and think... | |
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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 reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age. 
