The first of these obnoxious passages, and the only one relating to geology, was as follows: — "The waters of the sea have produced the mountains and valleys of the land — the waters of the heavens, reducing all to a level, will at last deliver the... Principles of geology - Page 66by sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1835Full view - About this book
| Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1832 - 634 pages
...geology, was as follows. ' The waters of the sea have produced the mountains and valleys of the land—the waters of the heavens, reducing all to a level, will...leave dry new continents like those which we inhabit.' BufFon was invited by the College, in very courteous terms, to send in an explanation, or rather a... | |
| John Lee Comstock - Geology - 1836 - 396 pages
...propositions were reprehensible, and contrary to the creed of the Church. One of these propositions were as follows. "The waters of the sea have produced the...Heavens reducing all to a level, will at last deliver all, over to the sea, which successively prevailing over the land, will leave dry, new continents like... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1837 - 568 pages
...Leibnitz and Moro, by the observations of Steno, or he could not have imagined that the strata were generally horizontal, and that those which contain...leave dry new continents like those which we inhabit. Buffon was invited by the College, in very courteous terms, to send in an explanation, or rather a... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1837 - 500 pages
...of these obnoxious passages, and the only one relating to geology, was as follows : — " The wafers of the sea have produced the mountains and valleys...leave dry new continents like those which we inhabit." Buffon was invited by the College, in very courteous terms, to send in an explanation, or rather a... | |
| John Lee Comstock - Geology - 1841 - 398 pages
...propositions were reprehensible, and contrary to the creed of the Church. One of these propositions were as follows. " The waters of the sea have produced...Heavens reducing all to a level, will at last deliver all, over to the sea, which successively prevailingoverthe land, will leave dry, new Continents like... | |
| John Lee Comstock - Geology - 1841 - 478 pages
...propositions were reprehensible, and contrary to the creed of the Church. One of these propositions were as follows. " The waters of the sea have produced the mountains and valleys of the land—the waters of the Heavens reducing: all to a level, will at last deliver all, over to the sea,... | |
| George Taylor - Creation - 1851 - 300 pages
...Earth, that " The waters of the sea have produced the mountains and valleys of the land," and that " the waters of the heavens, reducing all to a level,...leave dry new continents like those which we inhabit." This was not more objectionable than the theory advanced by Pythagoras and Aristotle, and others contemporary... | |
| George Taylor - Creation - 1851 - 302 pages
...of Paris felt it necessary to interpose their authority. He said in his Theory of the Earth, that " The waters of the sea have produced the mountains and valleys of the land," and that " the waters of the heavens, reducing all to a level, will at last deliver the whole land... | |
| Robert Cox - Freedom of religion - 1853 - 744 pages
...Faculty of Theology in Paris, from the Count de Buffon, who had taught in his Natural History that " the waters of the sea have produced the mountains...sea, and the sea successively prevailing over the laud, will leave dry new continents like those which we inhabit." It is as follows : — " I declare... | |
| Edinburgh Geological Society - Geology - 1885 - 680 pages
...Sorbonne, the Theological Faculty of the University of Paris. " The waters of the sea," said Buffon, " have produced the mountains and valleys of the land...will at last deliver the whole land over to the sea ; " adding, however, " and the sea successively prevailing over the land will leave dry new continents... | |
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