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Page 135 - a fit companion for the kindred reptiles that swarmed in the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet. "The Fiend, O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flics.
Page 133 - With head uplift above the waves and eyes That sparkling blazed, his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size,
Page 133 - his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size,
Page 270 - This region was first by atmospheric and geological causes of previous operation under the will of the Almighty, brought into a condition of superficial ruin, or some kind of general disorder." Probably by volcanic agency it was submerged, covered with fogs and clouds, and subsequently elevated and the atmosphere by the fourth day rendered pellucid.
Page 135 - creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri swarming in the ocean, and gigantic Crocodiles and Tortoises crawling on the shores of the primeval lakes and rivers ; air, sea, and land must have been strangely tenanted in these early periods of our infant world.
Page 133 - that warred on Jove. Briareos or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held, or that sea beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created
Page 273 - which God threatened to Adam, and which passed upon his posterity, is not the going out of this world, but the manner of going. If he had stayed in innocence, he should have gone
Page 269 - If it be objected that according to Moses, the sun, moon and stars were not created till the fourth day, it may be replied that a more just interpretation of his language shows his meaning to be, not that the heavenly bodies were created on the fourth day, but that they were then first
Page 204 - Group are connected by 600 miles of coral reefs, over which the natives can travel from one island to another. Between New Holland and New Guinea, is a line of reefs 700 miles long, interrupted in no place by channels more than
Page 223 - Whose foundation is a molten flood ? Who said to God, depart from us, What can Shaddai do to us ? Though he had filled their houses with wealth. (Far from me be the counsel of the wicked !) The righteous beheld and