 | Edward Hitchcock - Alcohol - 1830 - 40 pages
...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,...•wilderness : yea, and nothing shall escape them. Finally, the use of these substances threatens our liberties with ruin. We might as reasonably expect... | |
 | James Rennie - Insects - 1830 - 440 pages
...A fire deyoureth before them," says the Prophet Joel, J" and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them...desolate wilderness; yea, and .nothing shall escape . mem. ...The sound of their wings is as the sound of ^chariots, of many horses running to battle ;... | |
 | 1831 - 548 pages
..." 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...horses running to battle : on the tops of the mountains they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in... | |
 | Robert Jameson, James Wilson, Hugh Murray - Africa - 1831 - 382 pages
...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...wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses ; and as horsemen, so shall they run. Like the noise... | |
 | Natural history - 1831 - 590 pages
...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...wilderness ; yea* and nothing shall escape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses ; and as horsemen, so shall they run. Like the noise... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1831 - 336 pages
...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, to which they have... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1831 - 236 pages
...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 to dig pits and 'trenches... | |
 | John Hartley - Greece - 1831 - 426 pages
...chastisements which can befal guilty nations ; and up to this hour the visitation is experienced. The land was as the garden of Eden before them ; and behind them a desolate wilderness : (Joel ii. 3.) Recent events might almost intimate, that the language also is applicable : For all... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 356 pages
...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...the tops of the mountains shall they leap, like the nt>ise of a flame of fire that devoureth stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. Before their... | |
 | Thomas Whittemore - Bible - 1832 - 390 pages
...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...wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them." Jesus saw a pcculiar fitness therefore in choosing fire as a figure of the woes he denounced upon the... | |
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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. 
