 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.  Everard Tunstall - Page 128by Thomas Forester - 1851Full view - About this book
 | 1837 - 680 pages
...their progress by devastation and ruin; to use the graphic language of the prophet — " The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness "3 This plague has generally been considered as belonging to the old world, in which they seldom exceed... | |
 | William Warburton - 1837 - 744 pages
...not been ever the like — 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 of horses ; and as... | |
 | William Chambers - 1837 - 352 pages
...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 chariots, of many... | |
 | Léon marquis de Laborde - 1838 - 438 pages
...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 of horses ; and... | |
 | 1838 - 886 pages
...evidently in allusion to their immense swarms hiding the sun during their flight : — " The land is a» the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them." — " Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall... | |
 | John Elliot Palmer - 1838 - 252 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 them a desolate wildernes : yea, and nothing shall escape them.'1 This prophecy is supposed to have been written about... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1839 - 228 pages
...another, but not without leaving mournful traces of their visits. It might almost be said of them, " The land was as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness." After some time had passed, the persecuted Protestants, finding all was quiet, ventured to steal forth... | |
 | Charles Frederick Childe - 1839 - 448 pages
...of simple sterility, but of barrenness where once was plenty, of ruin succeeding to prosperity — " the land was as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness — yea, and nothing could escape them." Remembering what we do of the glowing terms in which that... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1839 - 302 pages
...green earth is his prostrate prey. And he darkens the sun at the noon of day ! Mary Howitl. The land is as the Garden of Eden before them, And behind them a desolate wilderness; Yea, and nothing shall escape them. * * * • * And they shall march every one on his way, And they... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1839 - 322 pages
...the years of many generations. Before them a fire devoureth, And behind 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 CONSEQUENCES OF ATHEISM. 283 3. Their appearance shall be... | |
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