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 ...A. Bettesworth ... and J. Hodges, 1734 - 177 páginas |
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... Countries . And this being of that kind , I have no cause to doubt , but it may meet with a ci- vil Treatment as thofe that have al- ready been made publick by R. B. [ 5 ] THE General History O. F EARTHQUAKES . To the READER.
... Countries . And this being of that kind , I have no cause to doubt , but it may meet with a ci- vil Treatment as thofe that have al- ready been made publick by R. B. [ 5 ] THE General History O. F EARTHQUAKES . To the READER.
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... Countries where the Earth hath but few Pores , or where they are stopt with moisture , it must neceffarily happen , that thefe Exhalations ftriving to get out , muft needs rend the Earth , or lift it up , either to get free paffage , or ...
... Countries where the Earth hath but few Pores , or where they are stopt with moisture , it must neceffarily happen , that thefe Exhalations ftriving to get out , muft needs rend the Earth , or lift it up , either to get free paffage , or ...
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... Country round about , even they alfo • turned to be with the Ifraelites that were with Saul and Jonathan . Likewife all the Men of Ifrael which had hid them- ⚫ felves in Mount Ephraim when they heard that the Philiftines fled , even ...
... Country round about , even they alfo • turned to be with the Ifraelites that were with Saul and Jonathan . Likewife all the Men of Ifrael which had hid them- ⚫ felves in Mount Ephraim when they heard that the Philiftines fled , even ...
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... Country of Laconia , there happened in the City of Sparta a moft ter- rible and fearful Earthquake , for the Earth in many places of the Country opened and fell in as into a bottomlefs Pit . The Mountain Taygetum hook fo terribly that ...
... Country of Laconia , there happened in the City of Sparta a moft ter- rible and fearful Earthquake , for the Earth in many places of the Country opened and fell in as into a bottomlefs Pit . The Mountain Taygetum hook fo terribly that ...
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... Country to the Romans . Tit , Livius . Hift . Fofephus records that about twenty nine . Years before the birth of Chrift , there happened a tremendous Earthquake in the Country of Judea , whereby divers Beafts were flain , and many ...
... Country to the Romans . Tit , Livius . Hift . Fofephus records that about twenty nine . Years before the birth of Chrift , there happened a tremendous Earthquake in the Country of Judea , whereby divers Beafts were flain , and many ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.