 | Joseph Townsend - 1781 - 342 páginas
...be known by the face of the country. We may fay of defpo'ts, as the prophet does of the locufts, " The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a dcfolate wildernefs * ". •' •Joelii. 3. CHAP. IX. ON POPULATION. 5 I.TH HE ftrength and profperity... | |
 | Louis de Marolles - 1790 - 224 páginas
...are no more banks to refift the flood, and, as far as it reaches, there is nothing but defclation. A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden tf Eden bifers them -, and behind them a defolate vjilderncfs: yea, and nothing jhall efcape them.... | |
 | Joseph Townsend - 1791 - 388 páginas
...hath not been ever the like, neither mall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame...the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate wildernefs, yea, and nothing mall efcape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance... | |
 | Joseph Townsend - 1791 - 396 páginas
...hath not been ever the like, neither mall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame...the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate wildernefs, yea, and nothing mall efcape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance... | |
 | 1848 - 726 páginas
...wastes away. Fruit is nipped off by the stems which bear it, and falls immediately to the ground. " The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness." When a flight is seen approaching, the farmer attempts to prevent its alighting on his grounds by kindling... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1801 - 1008 páginas
...their oppreffion, fcorpions from the fandy defarts, dinging mankind to madncfs. " A fire dcvoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth ; the...the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate wildernefs ; the earth fliall quake, the heavens mall tremble, and before their face the people... | |
 | 1806 - 500 páginas
...she laid her young; so should I find thine altars, O Lord of Hosts, my King and my God." JOEL ii. 3. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and...behind them a desolate wilderness} yea, and nothing shalt escape them. This, and much more in the same prophecy, is a won-' derfully exact description... | |
 | 1832 - 852 páginas
...land. After painting in the darkest colour the ravages which they should occasion, he thus describes them : " The appearance of them is as the appearance...horses, and as horsemen so shall they run : like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap ; like the noise of a flame of fire that... | |
 | Louis de MAROLLES, John Martin - 1803 - 248 páginas
...there are no more banks to resist the flood ; as far as it reaches, there is nothing but desolation. A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame...desolate wilderness: yea, and nothing shall escape them. What are become of so many churches founded by the apostles, so flourishing in their age, and since?... | |
 | 1803 - 512 páginas
...vapours travel on the wings of the wind, when the Lord of health and life gives them the commiffion. " The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolatewildernefs; yea, and nothing fhallefcape them." Nor Itkat scodoes the furious florm difplay... | |
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A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. 
