| Charles Rollin - 1844 - 372 pages
...same hour his understanding departed from him ; " he was driven from men, and ate grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till...were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like the claws of a bird," Dan. iv. 2S— 33. The malady by which the Divine judgment punished the pride... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - 1845 - 852 pages
...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, till...were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws. "t Evil-Merodach succeeded, and after a short reign was murdered by his sister's husband,... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - 1845 - 382 pages
...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, till...were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws."! Evil-Merodach succeeded, and after a short reign was murdered by his sister's husband,... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - 1845 - 872 pages
...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, till...were 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,... | |
| 1867 - 826 pages
...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...were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws" (Dan. iv. 31 — 33). Never was a check given to human presumption more prompt and overwhelming,... | |
| Robert Isaac Wilberforce - 1845 - 272 pages
...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...were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws. And at the end of the days, I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - 1846 - 398 pages
...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, till...were 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,... | |
| John Relly Beard - 1847 - 660 pages
...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 - 1847 - 250 pages
...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 - 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... | |
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