The Advancing Kingdom: Or, The Wonders of Foretold HistoryAmerican Publishing Company, 1892 - 534 pages |
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... fiend Dissension like a vapour sinks , And e'en the all - dazzling Crown Hides his faint rays , and at her bidding shrinks . " The Roman system therefore , in its most essential features THE WORLD'S HISTORY IN A DREAM . 49.
... fiend Dissension like a vapour sinks , And e'en the all - dazzling Crown Hides his faint rays , and at her bidding shrinks . " The Roman system therefore , in its most essential features THE WORLD'S HISTORY IN A DREAM . 49.
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... crown his hopes and seal his fame . For this is no other than Zerubbabel , the mighty prince of Judah , the patriot leader , the second Moses , the HERO OF THE RETURN . What thoughts must have crowded upon his mind as he looked around ...
... crown his hopes and seal his fame . For this is no other than Zerubbabel , the mighty prince of Judah , the patriot leader , the second Moses , the HERO OF THE RETURN . What thoughts must have crowded upon his mind as he looked around ...
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... crown : and he came forth conquering , and to conquer .... And another horse came forth , a red horse : and to him that sat thereon it was given to take peace from the earth , ... horse ; and he that sat thereon had a balance in his ...
... crown : and he came forth conquering , and to conquer .... And another horse came forth , a red horse : and to him that sat thereon it was given to take peace from the earth , ... horse ; and he that sat thereon had a balance in his ...
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... Crown ? And why is that gilded bow displayed at his side ? It is Trajan the Roman emperor , born in Crete , the land of bowmen , returning from five years of victory in Germany and the north . No wonder the multitude rend the air with ...
... Crown ? And why is that gilded bow displayed at his side ? It is Trajan the Roman emperor , born in Crete , the land of bowmen , returning from five years of victory in Germany and the north . No wonder the multitude rend the air with ...
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... crown ! Thou holdest a commission from the Arbiter of the nations to make thy reign of twenty years an unbroken triumphal march . Ride on , and let the people shout , for thy reign deserves to be called the period of the victorious ...
... crown ! Thou holdest a commission from the Arbiter of the nations to make thy reign of twenty years an unbroken triumphal march . Ride on , and let the people shout , for thy reign deserves to be called the period of the victorious ...
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The Advancing Kingdom, Or the Wonders of Foretold History (Classic Reprint) Frances Emory Tower No preview available - 2017 |
The Advancing Kingdom: Or, the Wonders of Foretold History Frances Emory Tower No preview available - 2015 |
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AMERICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY ANGEL apostles arms army Asia assault Babylon battle beast behold blood body called century CHAPTER Christ Christian church coming Commodus conquered COPYRIGHTED 1890 crown Daniel Danube dead death Diocletian divine dragon earth Egypt emperor empire Euphrates Europe event eyes faith fire foes four fulfilled gathered glory Goths hand HATH head heaven Hellespont holy host hour Illyria irreligion Israel Jaddua Jerusalem Jesus Jews king kingdom living look Lord Macedon marvelous mighty millions mouth multitude nations never pagan papacy papal period Persian plain Polycarp Pope premillennial PRESS & BOSTON priests prophecy prophetic prophetic word provinces Reformation reign revolution Roman Rome saints says scene Scythian seven shout slain soul spirit splendor stand Statius sword symbol Syria temple thee thou thousand throne tion to-day Trajan triumph trumpet truth Turks UNTO vast victory vision voice walls whole witnessed wonder
Popular passages
Page 47 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : — Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain: — These constitute a State ; And sovereign Law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Page 355 - 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, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
Page 348 - Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched-out arm and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Page 193 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Page 323 - And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years...
Page 462 - And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
Page 126 - 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 285 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow ; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 104 - And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny ; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
Page 47 - What Constitutes a State? WHAT constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate — Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned — Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride — Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No; men, high-minded men...