| Joseph Wilson (minister of Laxton.) - 1824 - 368 páginas
...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... | |
| Ann Taylor - 1825 - 276 páginas
...awaiting the final summons, reply to the gradual intimations of it, with ' Master, say on '? No. XXIII. The King spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon,...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,... | |
| William Carpenter - 1825 - 630 páginas
...when he dieth he shall carry nothing away ; his glory shall not descend after him, Ps. xlix. 16, 17. The king spake, and said. Is not this great Babylon,...by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty1! Dan. iv. 30. By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's... | |
| Teacher's offering - 1825 - 140 páginas
...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 páginas
...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,... | |
| William Penn - 1825 - 616 páginas
...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... | |
| George Paxton - 1825 - 598 páginas
...zenith of its glory in the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, who proudly -claimed it as his own creation : " Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house...by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?'"1 This magnificent city, the capital or beginning of Nimrod's kingdom, stood on a large plain,... | |
| 1825 - 712 páginas
...Chaldean monarch, fully proves. In the height of his pride, he 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 ? But while the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, О king Nebuchadnezzar,... | |
| John Platts - 1825 - 1006 páginas
...Nebuchadnezzar was walking on his palace of Babylon, he began to say, " 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 ?" Scarcely had he pronounced these words, when he fell into a distemper or distraction, which so altered... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1825 - 660 páginas
...domiIH . ,us, and dignities, aod .power to.do hurt.or good to others " : and say as Nebuchadnezzar, " Is not this great Babylon that I have built, for the house of the kingdom, by the might of my power, for the honour of my majesty"?'' How hard is it to be great and truly humble, and not to swell, and... | |
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