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... mountain -- objects - pleads for Zoar - obtains his request -- The destruction of Sodom sudden ... how effected --- the Dead Sea - Lot's wife -Testimonies of Tacitus , Philo , Pliny , Diodorus Siculus , Strabo , and Solinus , to this ...
... mountain -- objects - pleads for Zoar - obtains his request -- The destruction of Sodom sudden ... how effected --- the Dead Sea - Lot's wife -Testimonies of Tacitus , Philo , Pliny , Diodorus Siculus , Strabo , and Solinus , to this ...
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... mountain : dwelling on the dry land , or floating on the surface of the deep - I am still with God . Reason takes up the process where Sense fails . It deduces inferences respecting invisible things from those " which do appear ...
... mountain : dwelling on the dry land , or floating on the surface of the deep - I am still with God . Reason takes up the process where Sense fails . It deduces inferences respecting invisible things from those " which do appear ...
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... make no impression ! Let the friend of my choice be one who can relish the majesty of nature : who , on the close of the day , from the summit of some lofty mountain , will watch the rising cloud , and observe the evening spread her gray ...
... make no impression ! Let the friend of my choice be one who can relish the majesty of nature : who , on the close of the day , from the summit of some lofty mountain , will watch the rising cloud , and observe the evening spread her gray ...
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... mountain to rise decked with verdure , and break the clouds as they passed ? or clothed the valley with corn , and turned the course of the rivulet through it , to water the young plantation ? or drew an atmos- phere round this globe ...
... mountain to rise decked with verdure , and break the clouds as they passed ? or clothed the valley with corn , and turned the course of the rivulet through it , to water the young plantation ? or drew an atmos- phere round this globe ...
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... mountains raised by earthquakes are for the most part hollow , and are therefore naturally more dispo- sed to subside and fall in , This hypothesis supposes that all mountains with which we are now acquainted , are the effects of ...
... mountains raised by earthquakes are for the most part hollow , and are therefore naturally more dispo- sed to subside and fall in , This hypothesis supposes that all mountains with which we are now acquainted , are the effects of ...
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Page 133 - Then the Lord rained upon Sodom, and upon Gomorrah, brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Page 267 - And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee : for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.
Page 75 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 128 - ... the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Page 350 - Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors : And the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory: The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates, even lift them up, ye everlasting doors : And the King of glory shall come in.
Page 39 - Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work...
Page 188 - The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Page 149 - And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life ; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
Page 366 - Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons, Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations...
Page 294 - But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.