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 ... |
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... Rivers and Flouds , and fo that they never appear again ; Nay the Sea in fome places hath been drunk up , fo that People have gone over on foot , till the returning Tyde hath covered the place with Water again . The laft kind is , when ...
... Rivers and Flouds , and fo that they never appear again ; Nay the Sea in fome places hath been drunk up , fo that People have gone over on foot , till the returning Tyde hath covered the place with Water again . The laft kind is , when ...
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... River of fire , or be dashed on a Rock ; for who can tell the difpofitions of the Caverns below , or what fort of the Apartments there are under the Surface of the Earth ? We walk on the Battlements of a marvellous ftructure , a Globe ...
... River of fire , or be dashed on a Rock ; for who can tell the difpofitions of the Caverns below , or what fort of the Apartments there are under the Surface of the Earth ? We walk on the Battlements of a marvellous ftructure , a Globe ...
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... River Indus in Afia which receives fifteen other Rivers into it , altered its Channel and the neighbouring . Country was turned into a Wilderness by a lamentable Earthquake . Before the Peloponefian , or Civil Wars among the Grecians ...
... River Indus in Afia which receives fifteen other Rivers into it , altered its Channel and the neighbouring . Country was turned into a Wilderness by a lamentable Earthquake . Before the Peloponefian , or Civil Wars among the Grecians ...
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... River Tyber over- flowed Rome . The effects whereof were thought to be , That Sejanus the Favourite to Tyberius was executed for his Ambition , his Son ftrangled , his Daughter firft De- floured by the Hangman , then put to death ...
... River Tyber over- flowed Rome . The effects whereof were thought to be , That Sejanus the Favourite to Tyberius was executed for his Ambition , his Son ftrangled , his Daughter firft De- floured by the Hangman , then put to death ...
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... River Tyber . After this fo ter- rible a Famine raged in Britain that the People affembled in great numbers to caft themfelves into the Sea ; A Plague fo great in Rome that 8co Men fell dead in an hour in the time of Proceffion ...
... River Tyber . After this fo ter- rible a Famine raged in Britain that the People affembled in great numbers to caft themfelves into the Sea ; A Plague fo great in Rome that 8co Men fell dead in an hour in the time of Proceffion ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.