Coal Or Coal Oil: Or, The Geology of the Earth. Being a Popular Description of Minerals and Mineral Combustibles |
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Page 203 - And brake up for it my decreed place, And set bars and doors, And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Page 372 - Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
Page 49 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear : and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas : and God saw that it was good.
Page 288 - Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you it shall be for meat.
Page 203 - The clouds poured out water, the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad. The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven, the lightnings lightened the world : the earth trembled and shook.
Page 478 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their ( emperor...
Page 362 - And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Page 199 - For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God...
Page 171 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Page 20 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.