| Margaret Coxe - 1839 - 364 страница
...undermine the statements of the Word of God. It was of such geologists, that our favorite poet exclaimed, " Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which they learn That He who made it and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age." But these... | |
| William Cowper - 1839 - 554 страница
...through 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 Extraet a register, by which we learn That He who made it and reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken... | |
| Johnstone - 1840 - 386 страница
...to sustain the bitterness of disappointment ? Now for a touch at geologists and astronomers : — " 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, Contrive... | |
| John Marsh - 1840 - 480 страница
...through thirty and forty thousand years. The modern Chinese and Hindoos make similar pretensions. " Some drill and bore The solid earth, and, from the strata there, Extract a register by which they learn That he who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age." But the oldest... | |
| François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - 1841 - 322 страница
...Buffon veiled his eyes from the bright rays that blazed on them from heaven— that he might not see. 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, Contrive... | |
| William Cowper - 1841 - 240 страница
...charge His mind with meanings 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,... | |
| William Cowper - 1842 - 166 страница
...charge His mind with meanings 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,... | |
| William Cowper - 1842 - 162 страница
...never had, Or, having, kept conseal'd. Some drill and bore 150 The solid earth, and from the Htrata 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. Some, more acute, and more industrious still,... | |
| 1861 - 1148 страница
...infidel writings of Voltaire and others had created. It is to this discussion that Cowper alludes : " Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the...learn, That he who made it, and revealed its date To \! ".-,-, was mistaken in its age." * But the worthy cardinals could not put Hutton and Playfair in... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1861 - 992 страница
...infidel writings of Voltaire and others had created. It is to this discussion that Cowper alludes : " Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the...which we learn, That he who made it, and revealed it« date To Moees, was mistaken in its age." * But the worthy cardinals could not put Hutton and Playfair... | |
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