| 1820 - 190 pages
...made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners ? All the kings of the nations, even all...every one in his own house, but thou art cast out.'' From this fervent votary of temporal glory, thus fallen from his towering eminence, and sunk into contempt,... | |
| Charles Rollin - 1820 - 386 pages
...are described in the Scripture, after a manner equally terrible and instructive to all princes, c " But thou art cast out of thy grave, like an " abominable branch. Thou shall not t>e loined with them " (thy ancestors) in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy "... | |
| William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 230 pages
...say, Art thou also become weak as we. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning ! All the kings of the nations, even all of them lie...glory ; every one in his own house. But thou art cast dut of thy grave, like an abominable branch." SIMILE, or COMPARISON, is that figure, by which the resemblance... | |
| 1853 - 640 pages
...sublime picture furnished by Isaiah, when describing Sheol, the place where the dead are congregated : " All the Kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house." (Isai. xiv. 18.) In like manner, Byron's " Giaour " has a fine passage, in which, after Hassan has... | |
| A. Yosy - 1823 - 574 pages
...made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners? All the kings of the nations, even all...art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch; as a carcase trodden under foot. Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed... | |
| George Stanley Faber - 1823 - 468 pages
...clouds ; I will be like the Most High. Yet thou shall be brought down to Sheol, to the sides of the pit. All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie...art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch : thou shalt not be joined with them in burial. Isaiah xiv. 9 — 20. demonstration which claims the... | |
| 1823 - 602 pages
...xiv. 18, to have taken a pride in resting as magnificently in death as they had done in life — " All the kings of the nations, even " all of them, lie in glory ; every one in his own house." The stuccoed walls within are covered with hieroglyphics. They cannot be better described than ii the... | |
| 1823 - 736 pages
...xiv. 18, to have taken a pride in resting as magnificently in death as they had done in life — Alt the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in. his own house. The stuccoed walls within are covered with hieroglyphics. They cannot be better described thnn in the... | |
| 1823 - 496 pages
...xiv. 18. to have taken a pride in resting as magnificently in death, as they had done in life — Att the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory every one in his oiat house. The stuccoed walls within are covered with hieroglyphics. They cannot be better described... | |
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