 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 Cowper - 1889 - Počet stránok 632
...charge His mind with meanings that he never had, Or having, kept concealed. Some drill and bore 150 The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract...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... | |
 | 1890 - Počet stránok 894
...inaccuracy and doubt upon the records of scripture. Cowper has ironically informed us that, "Some dig and bore the solid earth, And from the strata there,...learn that He who made it And revealed its date to Moses Was mistaken in its age." The chief item of discrepancy is in regard to time. The skeptic says... | |
 | William Cowper - 1891 - Počet stránok 204
...all 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...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1896 - Počet stránok 348
...charge His mind with meanings that he never had, Or having, kept concealed. Some drill and bore 150 The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract...learn, That He who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age. Some, more acute and more industrious still, 155 Contrive creation... | |
 | Warren Raymond Perce - 1897 - Počet stránok 410
...strange that the mild and gentle Cowper should have winged his keen shaft of sarcasm when he wrote :l " 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." "The reasons annexed to the Fourth Commandment" (to borrow the quaint... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - 1898 - Počet stránok 74
...District ; but these came too late. They were published at Kendal in 1846, and Wordsworth died in 1850. * 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. — ' The Task,' bk. iii. 150. * You may trace him oft By scars which... | |
 | Andrew Dickson White - 1898 - Počet stránok 448
...one of the mildest of men, was also roused by these dangers, and in his most elaborate poem wrote: " 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 ! " John Howard summoned England to oppose " those scientific systems... | |
 | William Cowper - 1898 - Počet stránok 330
...charge His mind with meanings that he never had, Or having, kept concealed. Some drill and bore 150 The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract...learn That He who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age. Some, more acute and more industrious still, 153 Contrive creation;... | |
 | William Cowper - 1900 - Počet stránok 346
...threads of politic and shrewd design His mind with meanings that he never had, Or having, kept concealed. Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there 151 Extract a register, by which we learn That He who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was... | |
 | 1902 - Počet stránok 874
...decipherable as those that record human events and that they * This is in the "Task," and runs thus : "Some drill and bore The solid earth and from the strata there Extract a regiiter, by which we learn That He who made H and revealed its dale To Moses was mistaken in its age."... | |
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