 | 1819 - 488 pages
...wealth f. Nebuchadnezzar 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...might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ? While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O King Nebuchadnezzar,... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - 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 - 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... | |
 | Alexander Watson - 1867 - 1026 pages
...great king of Assyria, * swollen with pride and puffed up with uninterrupted success and power, " Is not this great Babylon that I have built, for the...might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty !" Nebuchadnezzar was a heathen, but he had previous discoveries made to him by Daniel's interpretation... | |
 | Ralph Barnes - 1821 - 228 pages
...NEBUCHADNEZZAR was very proud, and he walked in the Palace of the Kingdom of Babylon, 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 honor of my majesty? And while the word was in. die King's mouth, there fell a VOICE FROM HEAVEN,... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1821 - 558 pages
...his exploits, his grandeur and magnifience, is saying to himself, ° Is not tins great Babylon that I built for the house of the kingdom, by the might of' my power, and for the honour of my majesty 9 in this very instant, when, by vainly flattering himself that he held his power and kingdom from... | |
 | 1840 - 1122 pages
...power and glory to which he had been raised, exclaimed, in the pride and vanity of his heart, " Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the...for the honour of my majesty ? " (Dan. iv. 30.) It was made manifest, however, by what afterwards happened to him, that the "Most High ruleth in the kingdom... | |
 | Youth's instructor - 1830 - 542 pages
...who had wrought wonder* toward him," when walking in the splendour of his palace, he exclaimed, " Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house...might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ? " Thus boasted proud man before his Maker : but " those that walk in pride, God is able to abase... | |
 | Robert South - 1823 - 610 pages
...purpose ; where we have him walking in the palace of his kingdom, and thus braving it to himself: Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of my kingdom, and by the might of my power ? Words that sufficiently declare the speaker of them to have... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1824 - 542 pages
...looks, but the Lord looks aloof at them, Psalm cxxxviii. 6. Sometimes pride shews itself in word. Is not this great Babylon that I have built, for the...might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ? Daniel iv. 30. And again hi. 15; Who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands ? It was... | |
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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... 
