T. Burnet
Cited as T. Burnet. — 31 quotations
Aspect
The true aspect of a world lying in its rubbish.
Clod
This cold clod of clay which we carry about with us.
Cold
A cold and unconcerned spectator.
Consist
The land would consist of plains and valleys.
Consistence
The same form, substance, and consistency.
Consolidate
He fixed and consolidated the earth.
Convert
If the whole atmosphere were converted into water.
Correct
This is a defect in the first make of some men's minds which can scarce ever be corrected afterwards.
Couch
The waters couch themselves as may be to the center of this globe, in a spherical convexity.
Countermarch
Such countermarches and retractions as we do not willingly impute to wisdom.
Declension
The declension of the land from that place to the sea.
Dependency
This earth and its dependencies.
Dispose
More water . . . than can be disposed of.
Distinguish
Moses distinguished the causes of the flood into those that belong to the heavens, and those that belong to the earth.
Double
'T is observed in particular nations, that within the space of three hundred years, notwithstanding all casualties, the number of men doubles.
Instauration
Some great catastrophe or . . . instauration.
Odd
Sixteen hundred and odd years after the earth was made, it was destroyed in a deluge.
Preparation
I will show what preparations there were in nature for this dissolution.
Preëxistence
Wisdom declares her antiquity and preëxistence to all the works of this earth.
Proximate
The proximate natural causes of it [the deluge].
Reason
When they are clearly discovered, well digested, and well reasoned in every part, there is beauty in such a theory.
Rough
More unequal than the roughest sea.
Scar
This earth had the beauty of youth, . . . and not a wrinkle, scar, or fracture on all its body.
So
I viewed in may mind, so far as I was able, the beginning and progress of a rising world.
Stumbling-stone
This stumbling-stone we hope to take away.
Trace
You may trace the deluge quite round the globe.
Twist
There are pillars of smoke twisted about with wreaths of flame.
Unmake
God does not make or unmake things to try experiments.
Violence
We can not, without offering violence to all records, divine and human, deny an universal deluge.
Violent
No violent state can be perpetual.
Without
Eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach.