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 |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 16
Seite 7
... covered the place with Water again . The laft kind is , when great Moun- tains arife out of the Earth , or elfe when fome part of the Land finketh down , and instead thereof arife Rivers , Lakes or Fires , breaking out with Smoak and ...
... covered the place with Water again . The laft kind is , when great Moun- tains arife out of the Earth , or elfe when fome part of the Land finketh down , and instead thereof arife Rivers , Lakes or Fires , breaking out with Smoak and ...
Seite 23
... covered with a Leprofy : And before the City , in a place called Eroge , the half of a Mountain that ftood to the Eaft- ward brake and fell , and rolled and remov- ed for the space of four Furlongs , toward , the Oriental Mountain where ...
... covered with a Leprofy : And before the City , in a place called Eroge , the half of a Mountain that ftood to the Eaft- ward brake and fell , and rolled and remov- ed for the space of four Furlongs , toward , the Oriental Mountain where ...
Seite 31
... covered by a great Inundation of Waters , in- fomuch that on the Atlantick Ocean for a great while after no Ship could Sail , by rea- fon that the fame huge Sea by refolution of the Earth of that mighty Ifland was all turn- ed into Mud ...
... covered by a great Inundation of Waters , in- fomuch that on the Atlantick Ocean for a great while after no Ship could Sail , by rea- fon that the fame huge Sea by refolution of the Earth of that mighty Ifland was all turn- ed into Mud ...
Seite 71
... covered with Clouds , prognofticate's rain to the Neopolitans , in the top there is a large deep hollow in form of an Amphitheater , in the midft is a Pit which leads into the Entrails of the Earth , the matter thrown up is ruddy ...
... covered with Clouds , prognofticate's rain to the Neopolitans , in the top there is a large deep hollow in form of an Amphitheater , in the midft is a Pit which leads into the Entrails of the Earth , the matter thrown up is ruddy ...
Seite 72
... covered with them , and befides , Beasts , Fish , and Fowl , which were deftroyed , it overwhelmed Herculanum and Pompeios two adjoyning Cities with Pumice Stones , together with all the People fitting in the Theater ; There were alfo ...
... covered with them , and befides , Beasts , Fish , and Fowl , which were deftroyed , it overwhelmed Herculanum and Pompeios two adjoyning Cities with Pumice Stones , together with all the People fitting in the Theater ; There were alfo ...
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.