| Joseph Townsend - 1781 - 342 trang
...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 trang
...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 trang
...neither mall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. 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 defolate wildernefs, yea, and nothing mall efcape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance... | |
| Joseph Townsend - 1791 - 396 trang
...neither mall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. 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 defolate wildernefs, yea, and nothing mall efcape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance... | |
| 1848 - 726 trang
...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... | |
| 1806 - 500 trang
...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... | |
| Louis de MAROLLES, John Martin - 1803 - 248 trang
...resist the flood ; as far as it reaches, there is nothing but desolation. A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the...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 trang
...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... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1806 - 416 trang
...number, and the uncommon devastation which the locusts should 3 make. A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a flame burneth : the land . [is]...desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them ; they shall devour every thing BO tuitkly 4 and entirely, (hat one would think afire had done itt... | |
| 1805 - 570 trang
...referred us to the third verse of the second chapter of Joel, from which the images are translated : * The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a ilesolate wilderness.' Mr. Wrangham now laments the state of degradation to which Hindostán was reduced... | |
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