 | William Cooke Taylor - History, Ancient - 1846 - 398 pages
...Nebuchadbez 'zar was punished by a fit of lunacy ; during which " he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven,...grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws."f Evil-Merodach succeeded, and after a short reign was murdered by his sister's husband, Neriglis'sar.... | |
 | Sir Henry Spelman - Sacrilege - 1846 - 546 pages
...stricken with madness, cast out of his kingdom, liveth among beasts, and like a beast, feedeth upon grass, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws. ' And in the days of his grandchild was his family clean extinguished, and his great empire taken from... | |
 | John Relly Beard - Bible - 1847 - 660 pages
...old, expelled from human society, nnd, living on the spontaneous products of the soil, did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like engles' feathers, and his nails like birds' clawe. — This great vaunted city also now drew near to... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare - Faith - 1847 - 250 pages
...the Most High ruleth in the hingdom of men, he was therefore driven out from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown lihe eagles feathers, and his nails lihe birds claws; in like manner we also, if we were not endowed... | |
 | John Jewel - Theology - 1847 - 622 pages
...astonied him with deadly madness. " He was driven from men, and did eat grass as the oxen, and Dan. ¡Y. his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown as eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws." He imagined that he was an ox, that he had hoof... | |
 | Henry Tudor - Families - 1848 - 468 pages
...same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar : and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven,...eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.' * " Such, my valued friend, as was the impious king of Babylon in the haughtiness of his unsubdued... | |
 | John Brown - 1848 - 530 pages
...same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar; and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven,...eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws." Take another example : " Upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat on his throne, and made... | |
 | John Jewel - Apologetics - 1848 - 610 pages
...and astonied him with deadly madness. " He was driven from men, and did eat Dan. IT. 33. grass as the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown as eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws." He imagined that he was an ox, that he had hoof,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1849 - 440 pages
...same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar ; and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven,...eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws." It is by no means agreed in what this extraordinary change consisted, or how long it continued. The... | |
 | 548 pages
...speedily as His predecessors, his place and dominion, " for he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven,...eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws." There is nothing left to be proved. " Thou art weighed m the balances and art found wanting," is the... | |
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The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar : and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven ; till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds 
