The Philosophy of Earthquakes, Natural and Religious, Or, An Inquiry Into Their Cause, and Their Purpose, 第 1 巻、第 1~2 部

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C. Corbet, 1750 - 93 ページ
"London was shaken by an earthquake in 1759 and here Stukeley attempts to explain that the event was caused by electricity. Based upon studies made and published by Benjamin Franklin, who is mentioned on page 24, it is the natural conclusion that earthquakes ensue from contact of atmospheric electricity with the earth. References are made to famous earthquakes in history and the resulting damages. Of significance is the overlap between the natural causes of earthquakes and the religious sense of the judgement of God playing a role in these events" --

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52 ページ - And they shall go into the holes of the rocks and into the caves of the earth for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
50 ページ - Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, and brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
46 ページ - Israel his dominion. The sea saw it, and fled : Jordan was driven back. The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
4 ページ - Lo, these are parts of his ways, but how little a portion is heard of him; and the thunder of his power who can understand ?' ' Behold the heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain him.
50 ページ - And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.
46 ページ - O thou sea, that thou fleddest : and thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back ? 6 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams : and ye little hills, like young sheep...
29 ページ - ... know not. Come we to the animal world, we must needs assert, that all motion, voluntary and involuntary, generation, even life itself, all the operations of the vegetable kingdom, and an...
7 ページ - This noise passed rushing by him ; and instantly he saw the ground, a dry and solid spot, wave under him, like the face of the river. The tall trees of the avenue, where he was, nodded their tops very sensibly, and quavered.
45 ページ - The earth fhook, the heavens alfo dropped at the prefence of God : even Sinai itfelf was moved at the prefence of God, the God of Ifrael.
58 ページ - Earth be removed, and tho1 the Mountains be carried into the midft of the Sea ; tho the Waters thereof roar and be troubled ; tho...

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