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The Sacred theory of the earth : containing an account of the original of the earth and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo, till the consumation of all things (1719)

Burnet, Thomas, 1635?-1715 · London : Printed for John Hooke · leaf 125

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while^before they could wholly difengagetliemfelvesand defcend. But this was the general Ren-dezvous, which fooner or later they all got to,and mingling more and more with that oilyLiquor, they fuckt it all up at length, andtvere wholly incorporate together, and fo be-gan to grow more ftiff and… … ^i f The Deluge and Diffolutmioj the Earth. 75 It may be, you will fay^ we take our Li-berty, and our own time for the Separation ofthefe two Liquors, the oily and the earthy^the lighter and the heavier j and fuppofe thatdone before the Air was cleard of EarthyParticles, that fo they might be…

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