| Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. 30 The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that 1 have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ? 31 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar,... | |
| William Bates - Presbyterianism - 1815 - 544 pages
...blasphemer !) and I have made it for myself." Thus Nebuchadnezzar boasted, walking in his palace, " Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of my kingdom, by the might of my power, and the glory of my majesty ? I have laid the foundations thereof... | |
| John Hoyland - Bible - 1816 - 432 pages
...degrec, that he may, in a manner, be said to have built it, as he boasted himself, Daniel iv. 30 : "Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house...might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ?" By one means or other, Babylon became so great and famous a city, as to give name to a very large... | |
| Sarah Trimmer - 1817 - 412 pages
...the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the king of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon,...majesty? While the word was in the king's mouth, there fella voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken, The kingdom is departed... | |
| Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 714 pages
...have a full prospect of the whole city, (6) " Is not this great Babylon (said he to himself) which I have built for the house of the kingdom, by the...might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ?" Babylon was one of the most ancient cities of the world. It was founded by Nimrod, not long after... | |
| Hosea Ballou - Sermons, American - 1818 - 448 pages
...'* but at the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spoke and said, is not this great Babylon that I have built...house of the kingdom, by the might of my power, and for the honor of ray ma* jesty ? While the word was in the king's mouth there fell a voice from heaven,... | |
| Hosea Ballou - Sermons, American - 1818 - 432 pages
...end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spoke and said, ie not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom, by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty ? While the word was in the king's mouth there fell a voice from heaven,... | |
| 1819 - 896 pages
...the ostentatious vaunt of the mighty Nebuchadnezzar himself was couched in the singular number. " Ь not this great Babylon that I have- built for the...might of my power and for the honour of my majesty Î" (Dan. iv. 30.) In fact, the pride which dictated this assumption of the plural number seems to... | |
| Sir Walter Raleigh - Guiana - 1820 - 620 pages
...pleased himself so well, that he broke out into these glorious words : ' Is not this ' great Babel, that I have built for the house of * the kingdom,...might of my power, and for * the honour of my majesty ?" Surely if those things be true that are by Josephus rehearsed of him out of Berosus and Megasthenes,... | |
| Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1820 - 386 pages
...admiring the beauty and magnificence of his buildings, he said," Is not this great Babylon, " which I have built for the house of the kingdom, by the...might of my power, and for the honour, of my majesty ?" Would a secret impulse of complacency and vanity in a prince, at the sight of such noble structures... | |
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