 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 reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.  Notes and Queries - Strana 4351879Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | William Rhind - 1830 - Počet stránok 376
...often been perverted; hence such theorists have exposed themselves to the lash of the satirist: -" Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the...learn That He who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age. Some more acute, and more industrious still, Contrive creation, travel... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - Počet stránok 256
...all 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...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,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - Počet stránok 328
...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...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,... | |
 | 1837 - Počet stránok 336
...ignorance, or 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 - Počet stránok 516
...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 Extract u register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and reveal'd its date To Moses, was mistaken in... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - Počet stránok 602
...all kis purposes, and, chargs His mind with meanings that he never had, Or, having, kepi concealed. Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the...learn, That he who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age. Some, more acute, and more industrious still, 'ontrive creation ; travel... | |
 | James Rennie - 1831 - Počet stránok 422
...occur to some few that we deserve the reproach of the amiable and pious Cowper, against those who " drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata...learn That he who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its agef." The professors of geology have too long been open to such reproaches,... | |
 | 1831 - Počet stránok 858
...ordinary course of nature." XXX THE WORLDS ACE. TotheEditorqflheChristianObserver. COWPER says, — " Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we Irani That He who made it, und revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age." This is admirable... | |
 | William Cowper - 1831 - Počet stránok 192
...fcharge His mind with meanings that he never had, Or, having^ept conceal'd. Some drill and bore 15t> The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he,who made it and reveal'd it's date To Moses, was mistaken in its age. Some, more acute, and more... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - Počet stránok 892
...some times, to borrow the representation of Cowper, it has " bored the solid earth," that it might Extract a register by which we learn That He who made it, and revealed its date To Moaes, was mistaken in its age. At other times, it has ransacked the histories of Egypt, of Hindoostan,... | |
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