 | Joseph Townsend - Despotism - 1781 - 342 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Townsend - 1791 - 396 pages
...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 - France - 1791 - 388 pages
...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... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - World history - 1801 - 1008 pages
...from the fandy defarts, dinging mankind to madncfs. " A fire dcvoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth ; the land is as 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 pages
...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,... | |
 | Louis de MAROLLES, John Martin - Huguenots - 1803 - 248 pages
...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 garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness: yea, and nothing shall escape them. What are become of so many churches founded... | |
 | Theology - 1803 - 512 pages
...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... | |
 | English literature - 1805 - 570 pages
...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... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1806 - 340 pages
...DESOLATING MARtH OF AN ARMY OF LOCUSTS. Jotl zd Chap. 18. ...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 (hall efcape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1806 - 416 pages
...uncommon devastation vihich the locusts should 3 make. 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 ; they shall devour every thing so quickly... | |
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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. 
