American Antiquities and Discoveries in the West: Being an Exhibition of the Evidence that an Ancient Population of Partially Civilized Nations Differing Entirely from Those of the Present Indians Peopled America Many Centuries Before Its Discovery by Columbus, and Inquiries Into Their Origins, with a Copious Description of Many of Their Stupendous Works, Now in Ruins, with Conjectures Concerning what May Have Become of Them ; Compiled from Travels, Authentic Sources, and the Researches of Antiquarian Societies |
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Page 28 - Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
Page 21 - Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
Page 80 - And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: For true and righteous are his judgments...
Page 153 - That in ancient times a herd of these tremendous animals came to the Big-bone licks, and began an universal destruction of the bear, deer, elks, buffaloes, and other animals which had been created for the use of the Indians...
Page 389 - The day of the Lord will come, as a thief in the night ; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also, and the works that are therein, shall be burnt up.
Page 148 - Behold now Behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. He is the chief of the ways of God : he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
Page 154 - He is the chief of the ways of God : he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him. Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
Page 367 - The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
Page 45 - Nor can their enemies easily surprise them with the suddenness of their incursions; for as soon as they have marched into an* enemy's land, they do not begin to fight till they have walled their camp about; nor is the fence they raise rashly made, or uneven ; nor do they all abide in it, nor do those that are in it take their places at random; but if it happens that the ground is uneven, it is first levelled...
Page 179 - And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die. 10 And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee ? and he shall say, No.