 | Charles Drelincourt - 1824 - 654 pages
...wherewith thou hast clothed me ; and let me not imitate the vanity of that profane' monarch, who cried, Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house...might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ? On the contrary, grant that I may devoutly adore him by whom I reign ; and that I m;iy prostrate... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 530 pages
...shall deliver out of my hands? — Dan. iii. 14, 15. The king 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? While the word was in his mouth, &c. a voice said, The kingdom is .departed from thee. — Dan. iv.... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 522 pages
...shall deliver out of my hands? — Dan. iii. 14, 15. The king 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? While the word was in hta mouth, &c. a voice said, The kingdom is departed from thee. — Dan. iv.... | |
 | Joseph Wilson (minister of Laxton.) - 1824 - 368 pages
...power, when he beheld his magnificent city and thought upon the greatness of his empjre, exclaimed, " Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom." But while jbe was uttering the words, he was seized with madness, and became incapable of managing... | |
 | William Penn - 1825 - 616 pages
...before the pride of his power had filled his heart, and then his mouth, with this haughty question, "Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house...might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty c ?" But we are told, that while the words were in his mouth, "a voice from heaven rebuked the pride... | |
 | Hugh McNeile - 1825 - 472 pages
...Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon walked in the palace of his kingdom, and the king spake and said, Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house...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,... | |
 | Ann Taylor - 1825 - 276 pages
...to the gradual intimations of it, with ' Master, say on '? No. XXIII. 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 1 DANIEL, chap, iv, ver. 30. ' O KING, live for ever!' for the narrow term of a mortal life, it seems,... | |
 | Teacher's offering - 1825 - 140 pages
...made by Nebuchadnezzar, that he may be said to deserve the honour he claims, in Dan. iv. 30 ; " Is not this great Babylon, that ' I have built, for the...might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty ?" This city was fortified by immense walls, 87 feet thick, and 350 high, built in an exact square,... | |
 | John Davison - 1825 - 578 pages
...similar prediction of Moses, they are altogether unlike the bent of man's own feeling and wisdom. " Is not this great. Babylon that I have " built for the..." of my power, and for the honour of my majesty*?" This was the arrogancy of an elated king : but the bias of nature, the ordinary movement of human feeling,... | |
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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... 
