EdnaCharing Cross Publishing Company, 1880 - 273 pages |
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Abijah Abradatas Æsop altar Amasis answered arms army Assur Assyrians Babylon Babylonian Captivity Baltassar beautiful blood brave breast breath bright captivity Casaphon chariot charm chieftain command Croesus crowd Cyaxares Cyrus dance Darius dark dead divine dreadful dream earth Ecbatana Edna Edna's Egypt Egyptian enemy Euphrates excitement eyes face father fear feeling filled force gates gaze glance glory gold golden hand happy head heart heaven holy honour hope Jews Jochebed king king's Lascaris light look lord lover maiden Medes Merodach mind nature Nebuchadnezzar Neriglissar never Nitocris noble old Eleazar once palace passed passionate Persian priest princes Ptolemais queen river round royal sacred seemed shadow side sight Simeon smile Solon song sorrow soul sound spirit stars stood strange sweet temple Thales thee thine thing thou art thought throne tion trembling vast voice walls whilst whispered wings woman young youth
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Page 230 - Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people ? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.
Page 164 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness: And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts; and choking sighs. Which ne'er might be repeated...
Page 216 - There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers...
Page 265 - Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him ; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.
Page 206 - And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: the merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk...
Page 217 - Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another ; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.
Page 238 - Go through, go through the gates ; prepare ye the way of the people ; cast up, cast up the highway ; gather out the stones ; lift up a standard for the people.
Page 167 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Page 111 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 97 - The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants,- and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.