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Scriptures teach are coming to earth such
The coming of this theory is aimed to dissipate any looking for supernatural changes such as the [143] Scriptures teach are coming to earth, such as the last day, the coming of Christ, the resurrection and all the vast series of changes therein declared.
— from The Other Side of Evolution: Its Effects and Fallacy by Alexander Patterson

substances that are common to every spot
It is likewise evident that these effluvia were not of any particular or mineral nature, because they were of a substance that was common to every part of the surface of the earth: and therefore one may conclude that they were watery exhalations, or, at least, such mixed with other exhalable substances that are common to every spot of ground.”
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton

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