| 1841 - 214 pages
...was walking in his palace, and admiring the beauty and magnificence of Babylon, he exclaimed, " 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 his mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, " O king Nebuchadnezzar, to... | |
| 1841 - 650 pages
...2500 2500 25 00 2500 2500 2500 10 00 1000 1000 2500 1500 5 00 4 00 1000 10 00 15 00 2500 REPORT. " Is not this great Babylon that I have built, for the...might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ?" Such was the proud inquiry of one who felt that the world was made for him, and not he for the world.... | |
| Leeds St. Peter - 1841 - 322 pages
...feeling of King Nebuchadnezzar, when he looked forth upon the splendour which he had created.— " Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the...might of my power and for the honour of my majesty." Even the feelings of the Apostles appear to have been too much borrowed from the same worldly principles,... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1841 - 370 pages
...buildings, he became so elated at the sight of the structures -he had erected, that he exclaimed, " Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the...might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?" In an instant, a voice came from heaven declaratory of his fate, and his understanding was taken from... | |
| John Goulter Dowling - 1841 - 546 pages
...behold, they were all dead corpses." Nebuchadnezzar walks in the palace of his kingdom, and says, " Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the...might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?" And what follows? He becomes a madman and an outcast. " The kingdom is departed from him," and he is... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 304 pages
...he was of a very high and towering spirit, which neither rank nor wealth could satisfy, w.ithout t " While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell...Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken, the kingdom is demirted from then."—Daniel, iv. 31. " * " Pallida mors tequo pulsat pede," &c. power and popularity... | |
| James Baillie Fraser - 1842 - 352 pages
...uilt for the house of the kingdom, by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty V But, " while the word was in the king's mouth, there fell...departed from thee : and they shall drive thee from among men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field : they shall make thee to eat grass... | |
| Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 764 pages
...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...it is spoken ; The kingdom is departed from thee. 32 And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling ^'nitl be with the beasts of the field : they... | |
| Charles M. Sheldon - 1924 - 664 pages
...have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty? While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell...is spoken : The kingdom is departed from thee : and thou shalt be driven from men ; and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field ; thou shalt... | |
| Thomas Newton - 1839 - 762 pages
...it to such a degree, that he may in a manner be said to have built it: as he boasted himself, ' Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house...might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ?' — Dan. iv. 30. Nor is this asserted only in scripture, but is likewise attested by heathen authors,... | |
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