The General History of Earthquakes: Being an Account of the Most Remarkable and Tremondous Earthquakes that Have in Divers Parts of the World, from the Creation to this Time ... and Particularly Those Lately in Naples, Smyrna, Jamaica and Sicily. With a Description of the Famous Burning Mount Aetna, in that Island ... Likewise the Natural and Material Causes of Earthquakes ...A. Bettesworth ... and J. Hodges, 1734 - 177 Seiten |
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... nature have already met with , which , I find , bas occa- fioned many , Cefpecially young Peo- ple ) to lay afide thofe vain and idle Songs and Romance's wherewith they were formerly Converfant , and to divert their vacant hours with ...
... nature have already met with , which , I find , bas occa- fioned many , Cefpecially young Peo- ple ) to lay afide thofe vain and idle Songs and Romance's wherewith they were formerly Converfant , and to divert their vacant hours with ...
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... The place was fortified by Nature fo that no Man might afcend or attack them without much hazard ; yet only Jonathan and his Armour - bearer , climbing upon their Hands + · Hands and Feet invaded their Camp , and of EARTHQUAKES . 19.
... The place was fortified by Nature fo that no Man might afcend or attack them without much hazard ; yet only Jonathan and his Armour - bearer , climbing upon their Hands + · Hands and Feet invaded their Camp , and of EARTHQUAKES . 19.
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... Nature , and only by the immediate Pow- er of God , who deprived the Sun of its Light for that fpace of time . And ... Nature , fpake with a loud voice , faying , Either the World is at an end or the God of Nature Suffers . We C We ...
... Nature , and only by the immediate Pow- er of God , who deprived the Sun of its Light for that fpace of time . And ... Nature , fpake with a loud voice , faying , Either the World is at an end or the God of Nature Suffers . We C We ...
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... Nature , & c . XIX . Before the birth of our Saviour , Plato mentions a wonderful Earthquake , whereby in a Day and a Night a vaft Inland without the Streights of Gibralter called Atlantis , and bigger than Afia and Africa together ...
... Nature , & c . XIX . Before the birth of our Saviour , Plato mentions a wonderful Earthquake , whereby in a Day and a Night a vaft Inland without the Streights of Gibralter called Atlantis , and bigger than Afia and Africa together ...
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... crying out and detefting their Calamities . Mani- fold mifchiefs had they fuffered by the Turks and Barbarians , yet none like that which Nature inflicted . This Mountain is ta to be feen at this day , the top whereof 56 The General ...
... crying out and detefting their Calamities . Mani- fold mifchiefs had they fuffered by the Turks and Barbarians , yet none like that which Nature inflicted . This Mountain is ta to be feen at this day , the top whereof 56 The General ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abiram Afhes aftonishing againſt alfo almoft befides buried burning burnt caft Caftle Calamity Catania caufed Cevennes Chrift Church Cinders City confiderable Conftantinople Country Death deftroyed deftruction divers dreadful Earth Earthquake Earthquake happened fall fame faved fear fecurity feemed feen fell felves fent feve feven feveral fhaken fhall fide fiery fince finging Fire firft firſt flain Flames fmoak fome fometimes foon ftanding ftones fuch fuffered funk fwallowed hath heard Heaven Hiftory himſelf horrible Houfes hour Houſes hundred iffued Ifland Inhabitants Italy itſelf King Korah laft lefs Lightning likewife Lord moft Monfieur moſt Moun Mount Etna Mountain night noife obferved Orthez paffage pafs Perfons Port-Royal prefage Prodigious Pumice Puteoli quake reafon reft River Rocks ruined Sicily Singing of Pfalms Smoak Stones tains terrible Earthquake thefe themfelves thence thereof theſe thofe thoſe thou thoufand Thunder Town trembling Uzziah violent Voices Water Weft Wind
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 30 - And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell : and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. And every island fled away, and the mountains •were not found. And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail ; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
Seite 25 - And, behold, there was a great earthquake : for the Angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: and for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
Seite 24 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent...
Seite 28 - And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo. there was a great earthquake ; and the sun became black as sackcloth . of hair, and the moon became as blood...
Seite 28 - And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb : For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Seite 29 - And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants, the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great, and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
Seite 30 - And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
Seite 11 - And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
Seite 15 - But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit ; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.
Seite 26 - And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway. And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.