Chicago and the Great ConflagrationC.F. Vent, 1872 - 528 من الصفحات |
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طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
acres amount Avenue banks blocks Board Boston Boston Boston brick bridge buildings built burned bushels cago calamity Camp Douglas canal capital carbonic acid cent Chicago Chicago fire churches citizens clothing commerce committee companies conflagration Cook County Court-house Dearborn Depot destroyed destruction district dollars East erected Faneuil Hall feet fire flames grain hour hundred Illinois improvements Kinzie Lake Michigan Lake Street Lasalle Lasalle Street less loss Mayor ment merchants Michigan Michigan Avenue miles million Monday morning nearly night North Division October Park persons Philo Carpenter portion railroad Randolph real estate relief Relief Society residences river Robert Collyer ruins scene side soon South Water square miles stone sufferers supply thousand tion town trade Tribune tunnel wagon Washington Washington Street tunnel West Division whole wholesale York
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 357 - ... and cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
الصفحة 357 - ... the merchandise of gold and silver, and precious stones and of pearls, and fine linen and purple, and silk and scarlet, and all thyine wood and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble...
الصفحة 204 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
الصفحة 357 - And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
الصفحة 357 - The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, and saying; Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls ! For in one hour so great riches is come to nought.
الصفحة 462 - Cranes, were now consumed: and so returned exceeding astonished what would become of the rest, the fire having continued all this night (if I may call that night which was as light as day for ten miles round about, after a dreadful manner), when conspiring with a fierce eastern wind in a very dry season.
الصفحة 462 - I know not by what despondency or fate they hardly stirred to quench it, so that there was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures, without at all attempting to save even their goods ; such a strange consternation there was upon them...
الصفحة 463 - Paul's flew like granados, the melting lead running down the streets in a stream, and the very pavements glowing with fiery redness, so as no horse nor man was able to tread on them, and the demolition had stopped all the passages, so that no help could be applied. The eastern wind still more impetuously drove the flames forward. Nothing but the Almighty power of God was able to stop them, for vain was the help of man.
الصفحة 357 - Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
الصفحة 463 - ... carts, &c., carrying out to the fields, which for many miles were strewed with moveables of all sorts, and tents erecting to shelter both people and what goods they could get away.