| Edward Hitchcock - Alcohol - 1830 - 40 pages
...the prophetic language of inspiration : Afire devoureth before them, and behind, a Jlamc burnelh : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate •wilderness : yea, and nothing shall escape them. Finally, the use of these substances threatens... | |
| James Rennie - Insects - 1830 - 448 pages
...countries. " A fire devoureth before them," says the Prophet Joel, " 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. The sound of their wings is as the sound of... | |
| James Augustus St. John - 1831 - 336 pages
...So justly have they been compared by the prophet Joel to a great army; who further observes that ' the land is as the garden, of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness.' " Having lived near a month in this manner, like a sword with ten thousand edges,... | |
| 1831 - 548 pages
...Knowledge." " A fire devoureth before them," says the prophet Joel, "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. The sound of their wings is as the sound of... | |
| Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1831 - 236 pages
...of the trees, and 'announcing their approach, at a considerable distance, by the noise of feeding. " The land is as the garden of 'Eden before them, and behind them a 'desolate wilderness." In order to give a new direction to their course, the 'inhabitants are accustomed... | |
| Natural history - 1831 - 590 pages
...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 desolate wilderness ; yea* and nothing shall escape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance... | |
| Robert Jameson, James Wilson, Hugh Murray - Africa - 1831 - 382 pages
...Travels, vol. ip 418. muny 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 desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance... | |
| Stephen Merrill - Bible - 1832 - 472 pages
...to the years of many generations. 3 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. 4 The appearance of them is as the appearance... | |
| John Timbs - 1832 - 356 pages
...the Bible. Thus, in Joel ii. 2, &c. " 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. The sound of their wings is as the sound... | |
| Thomas Whittemore - Bible - 1832 - 390 pages
...destroy Jerusalem is thus described : "Afire 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." Jesus saw a pcculiar fitness therefore in... | |
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