 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 pages
...his purposes and charge His, mind with meanings that he never had, Or having, kept concealed. Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata...revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age. Some more acute, and more industrious still, .Contrive creation; travel nature up To the sharp peak... | |
 | William Cowper - 1828 - 468 pages
...his purposes, and charge His mind with meanings that he never had, Or, having, kept concealed. Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata...register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and reyeal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age. Some, more acute, and more industrious still,... | |
 | John Marsh - 1828 - 976 pages
...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... | |
 | John Marsh - 1828 - 674 pages
...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 bv which they learn That he who made it, and revealed its date DESCRIBED. Exod.xxv. 18-22. xxxvii.... | |
 | William Rhind - 1830 - 262 pages
...been perverted; hence such theorists have exposed themselves to the lash of the satirist : -" Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata...revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age. Some more acute, and more industrious still, Contrive creation, travel Nature up To the sharp peak... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...his purposes, and charge His mind with meanings that he never had, -Or, having, kept coneeal'd. Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata...register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and reveal'd it's date To Moses, was mistaken in it's age. Some, more acnte, and more industrious stilt,... | |
 | 1837 - 336 pages
...presumption ; a conduct which might well provoke the sarcasm of tbe poet, when be said — " ' 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.' — COWPBR."... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...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 u register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in... | |
 | James Rennie - 1831 - 422 pages
...In leading the mind of the reader to the contemplation of those remote periods, whose history, dark and imperfect as it may be, is yet written in legible...and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its agef." The professors of geology have too long been open to such reproaches, partly from the misplaced... | |
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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 revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age. 
