 | John BRUCE (Minister of Low Hill Cemetery, Liverpool.) - 1827 - 240 pages
...his banquet of wine, saw a hand writing in mystic characters on the wall, h'5 countenance changed, the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. Nor are these the feelings of men of infidel principles, and profligate lives, merely : most who are... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1828 - 356 pages
...wall of the *More Nevocb, part III. chap. xlv. t Dan. v. I — 6, king's palace ; and the king saw part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance...loosed, and his knees smote one against another." Read the writing, with the interpretation of it. " This is the writing that was written, MENE MENE,... | |
 | Edward Payson - 1828 - 522 pages
...him, that he had no reason to expect messages of mercy from the invisible world ; and therefore his countenance was changed and his thoughts 'troubled...were loosed and his knees smote one against another. Nor were his terrors without foundation ; for after the hand was withdrawn, the words, MENE, TEKEL,... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 734 pages
...characters on the wall. What followed ?—" His countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another;" the ceremonies of submission performed by his nobles, and the topics of consolation suggested by his queen,... | |
 | Extracts - 1828 - 786 pages
...What was it that made Belshazzar's countenance to change? Why did his thoughts trouble him, so lluit the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. when he saw the handwriting against the wall, in the midst of all his mirth and jollity? Was he afraid... | |
 | William Jay - 1828 - 408 pages
...power to charm : and though he was ignorant of the meaning of the inscription, he foreboded evil ; and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. If a man IN PROSPERITY. was at the most enchanting banquet, with a sword hanging over his head by a... | |
 | Joseph Fincher - 1829 - 442 pages
...hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the...were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. IN PRESERVING DANIEL WHEN CAST INTO THE DEN OF LIONS. DAN. vi. 10—17. Now when Daniel knew that the... | |
 | Esther Copley - 1829 - 742 pages
...remained, and though the king could not decipher it, his guilty conscience foreboded something amiss. His thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his...were loosed, and his knees smote one against another ! Poor guilty wretch ! Ah, how little could the splendour and luxury, the magnificence and gaiety,... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - 1829 - 580 pages
...him certain words which he understood not; wherewith so great a fear and amazement seized him, as a the joints of his loins were loosed, and his "knees smote one against the other. Which passion when he had in some part recovered, he cried out for his Chaldeans, astrologians,... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1830 - 304 pages
...came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick tfpon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace : and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. 6 Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him so that the joints of his... | |
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In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts... 
