When Shall These Things Be? Or, Signs of the Last TimesJ Nisbet, 1868 - 414 pages |
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... Italian Peninsula has been red with the blood of contending armies ; now the Turkish fleet has been sunk beneath the quiet waters of Navarin ; and now the Russian hordes have perished like flies in the autumn time , as with ever ...
... Italian Peninsula has been red with the blood of contending armies ; now the Turkish fleet has been sunk beneath the quiet waters of Navarin ; and now the Russian hordes have perished like flies in the autumn time , as with ever ...
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... Italy . Munich and Stuttgard are following . Hungary puts forth claims to autonomy which Austria , crippled and weary , is no longer in a position to dispute . Russia is said , on what seems reliable information , to have entered into ...
... Italy . Munich and Stuttgard are following . Hungary puts forth claims to autonomy which Austria , crippled and weary , is no longer in a position to dispute . Russia is said , on what seems reliable information , to have entered into ...
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... Italy on political grounds tried , at fearful sacrifice , to mitigate , if not arrest . But steadily and irresistibly the process goes on . All that is distinctive of the crescent in Europe is disappearing . The Turks are crossing the ...
... Italy on political grounds tried , at fearful sacrifice , to mitigate , if not arrest . But steadily and irresistibly the process goes on . All that is distinctive of the crescent in Europe is disappearing . The Turks are crossing the ...
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... Italy to play into their great neighbour's ranks . The pressure on the Ottoman comes from the West no less than from the North . The Sultan's consent , first to the independence , then to the auto- nomy , of Crete , has been hitherto ...
... Italy to play into their great neighbour's ranks . The pressure on the Ottoman comes from the West no less than from the North . The Sultan's consent , first to the independence , then to the auto- nomy , of Crete , has been hitherto ...
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... Italian allies seem coolly to contemplate ; and it is no wonder if the Porte , gathering courage from despair , declares that it will run the chances of a second Navarino , and succumb to open enemies rather than execute itself at the ...
... Italian allies seem coolly to contemplate ; and it is no wonder if the Porte , gathering courage from despair , declares that it will run the chances of a second Navarino , and succumb to open enemies rather than execute itself at the ...
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Page 312 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people...
Page 66 - And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Page 364 - Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and, sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 66 - And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
Page 237 - For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God : and the dead in Christ shall rise first...
Page 93 - Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in Heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of Heaven with power and great glory.
Page 102 - And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.
Page 310 - Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
Page 268 - This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Page 349 - And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubil and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the gentiles.