The Advancing Kingdom: Or, The Wonders of Foretold HistoryAmerican Publishing Company, 1892 - 534 pages |
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... hundred feet in height , and seventy - five fect in thickness , surmounted by two hundred and fifty towers of massive proportions , and flanked by a moat deep and wide , form- ing altogether a continuous rampart forty miles in circuit ...
... hundred feet in height , and seventy - five fect in thickness , surmounted by two hundred and fifty towers of massive proportions , and flanked by a moat deep and wide , form- ing altogether a continuous rampart forty miles in circuit ...
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... hundred , three hundred , five hundred , nay six hundred feet in air , ( if the accounts can be credited ) and seeming to touch the very zenith and challenge the passing of the flying clouds ? It is the temple of Belus ; and under a ...
... hundred , three hundred , five hundred , nay six hundred feet in air , ( if the accounts can be credited ) and seeming to touch the very zenith and challenge the passing of the flying clouds ? It is the temple of Belus ; and under a ...
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... hundred and forty miles in circumference and one hundred and eighty feet deep , the great canal uniting the two great rivers , the Tigris and the Euphrates , and another four hundred miles long to the sea , the quays and the breakwaters ...
... hundred and forty miles in circumference and one hundred and eighty feet deep , the great canal uniting the two great rivers , the Tigris and the Euphrates , and another four hundred miles long to the sea , the quays and the breakwaters ...
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... hundred and sixty ditches in which to draw off the water . This act , which seemed so utterly foolish , was really the most consummate wisdom . His object was plainly threefold . First , he thus satisfied himself of the possibility of ...
... hundred and sixty ditches in which to draw off the water . This act , which seemed so utterly foolish , was really the most consummate wisdom . His object was plainly threefold . First , he thus satisfied himself of the possibility of ...
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... hundred and seven years have rolled away since Belshaz- zar's feast and the fall of Babylon , when we come to another of the great turning points of history . The scene of the drama is shifted to the northwest about three hundred miles ...
... hundred and seven years have rolled away since Belshaz- zar's feast and the fall of Babylon , when we come to another of the great turning points of history . The scene of the drama is shifted to the northwest about three hundred miles ...
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Other editions - View all
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
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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...