Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ...: With Specimens of the Principal Writers, Volume 3C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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... Earth , entitled ' An Imperfect description of the Coming of our Saviour , and of the World on Fire : ' — Certainly there is nothing in the whole course of nature , or of human affairs , so great and so extraordinary as the two last ...
... Earth , entitled ' An Imperfect description of the Coming of our Saviour , and of the World on Fire : ' — Certainly there is nothing in the whole course of nature , or of human affairs , so great and so extraordinary as the two last ...
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... earth , and at the same time the greatest terror ; -a God descending at the head of an array of Angels , and a burning World under his feet ?. As to the face of nature just before the coming of our Saviour , that may be best collected ...
... earth , and at the same time the greatest terror ; -a God descending at the head of an array of Angels , and a burning World under his feet ?. As to the face of nature just before the coming of our Saviour , that may be best collected ...
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... world breaks into flames , and all the treasures of fire are opened in heaven and in earth . Thus the conflagration begins . If one should now go about to represent the world . on fire , 16 LITERATURE AND LEARNING IN ENGLAND .
... world breaks into flames , and all the treasures of fire are opened in heaven and in earth . Thus the conflagration begins . If one should now go about to represent the world . on fire , 16 LITERATURE AND LEARNING IN ENGLAND .
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... earth will be burnt up ; and these things cannot come to pass without the greatest disorders imagi- nable , both in the minds of man and in external nature , and the saddest spectacles that eye can behold . We think it a great matter to ...
... earth will be burnt up ; and these things cannot come to pass without the greatest disorders imagi- nable , both in the minds of man and in external nature , and the saddest spectacles that eye can behold . We think it a great matter to ...
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... earth ; for , when the exterior region of the earth is melted into a fluor , like molten glass or running metal , it will , according to the nature of other fluids , fill all vacuities and depressions , and fall into a regular sur- face ...
... earth ; for , when the exterior region of the earth is melted into a fluor , like molten glass or running metal , it will , according to the nature of other fluids , fill all vacuities and depressions , and fall into a regular sur- face ...
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