 | John Pinkerton - 1814 - 886 pages
...juftly have they been compared by the prophet Joel (ii. 30 to a great army; who further obferves, that the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolaie wildernefs. Having lived near a month in this manner, like a /*oficrof*ox £tpoc*, or ¡word... | |
 | Board of Agriculture (Great Britain) - 1815 - 648 pages
...their depredations in that instance, we could not refrain from applying the words of the prophet : " The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind Ifiem a desofate nildcmess; yea, and nothing shall escape them" Joei, lit 3. In solne instances, powdered... | |
 | John Allen - 1816 - 460 pages
...cities of the Medes, an • innumerable multitude, and they shall come with c the children of Moses. " The land is as the ' garden of Eden before them, and behind them a ' flame burneth :" (Joel ii. 3.) and they will leave ' the nations of the world nothing for their sus•... | |
 | George Wilkins - 1816 - 234 pages
...EVEN TO THE YEARS OF MANY GENERATIONS. A FIRE DEVOURETH BEFORE THEM, AND BEHIND THEM A FLAME BUHNETH : THE LAND IS AS THE GARDEN OF EDEN BEFORE THEM, AND BEHIND THEM A DESOLATE WILDERNESS; YEA AND NOTHING SHALL ESCAPE THEM. — See Joel ii. 2 — 11, where the words... | |
 | 1848 - 788 pages
...breath after escaping from a charge of locusts; and looking around yon, you exclaim with the prophet, ' The land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them!"" Mr Nicholson's location inclnded a tolerable... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1818 - 568 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 desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them. Like the noise of chariots'1 on the tops... | |
 | 1819 - 572 pages
...good; There in her gory shrine, with outstretch'd hands, Her human food stern Calica* demands : 1 " The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them л desolate wilderness." (Jod ii. 3.) 1 When Tamerlane caused it to be destroyed, AD 1397, upon the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 254 pages
...after it, even 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 behinde them a desolate wildernesse, yea, and nothing shaii escape them. 4. " The appearance of them... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 276 pages
...after it, even to the yeares 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 behinde them a desolate wildernesse, yea, and nothing shall escape them, 4. " The appearance of them... | |
 | Ralph Barnes - 1821 - 228 pages
...mountains, a great People and a strong, a fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burnetb; the Land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate Wilderness. They shall run like •mighty men, they shall climb the wall like men of war;... | |
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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. 
