Signs of the Times: Or, Present, Past, and FutureLindsay and Blakiston, 1855 - 288 pages |
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... clouds , may spread over the Euphrates , and try to prevent the evaporation of its waters ; but all in vain . The ruthless Czar has his stern mis- sion , and we our duty under all circumstances . The echoes of victory by the fleets of ...
... clouds , may spread over the Euphrates , and try to prevent the evaporation of its waters ; but all in vain . The ruthless Czar has his stern mis- sion , and we our duty under all circumstances . The echoes of victory by the fleets of ...
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... cloud . After cholera has struck down twenty or thirty in St. Giles's , it acquires strength , and visits Belgrave - square ; and we are grateful to God that it is so . It serves to teach the rich occupants , that the sun would shine as ...
... cloud . After cholera has struck down twenty or thirty in St. Giles's , it acquires strength , and visits Belgrave - square ; and we are grateful to God that it is so . It serves to teach the rich occupants , that the sun would shine as ...
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... clouds . " The fierce countenance of this predicted king , which is the picture of Daniel , is described by Gibbon , when he uses the expressien in his magnificent History , " He was fierce as a Turk . " " The Turks breathed still all ...
... clouds . " The fierce countenance of this predicted king , which is the picture of Daniel , is described by Gibbon , when he uses the expressien in his magnificent History , " He was fierce as a Turk . " " The Turks breathed still all ...
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... cloud of martyrs , saints and angels , the objects of popular veneration . " These idolatrous Chris- tians , who were not sealed of God , were the objects of the punishment of the locust propagandists , commissioned not to hurt the ...
... cloud of martyrs , saints and angels , the objects of popular veneration . " These idolatrous Chris- tians , who were not sealed of God , were the objects of the punishment of the locust propagandists , commissioned not to hurt the ...
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... cloud to cover the land , thou , and all thy bands , and many people with thee . Thus saith the Lord God ; It shall also come to pass , that at the same time shall things come into thy mind , and thou shalt think an evil thought ...
... cloud to cover the land , thou , and all thy bands , and many people with thee . Thus saith the Lord God ; It shall also come to pass , that at the same time shall things come into thy mind , and thou shalt think an evil thought ...
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Page 170 - But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness ; but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Page 153 - Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
Page 58 - 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 250 - For behold I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, And her people a joy. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem And joy in my people : And the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her Nor the voice of crying.
Page 254 - So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting ? O grave, where is thy victory ? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law ; but thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 139 - And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations : and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Page 83 - And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Page 224 - And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives...
Page 160 - And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Page 241 - One song employs all nations; and all cry, * Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us !* The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain-tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round.