The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The history of the world

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The University Press, 1829

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الصفحة 65 - Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
الصفحة 9 - I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
الصفحة 9 - Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,' saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
الصفحة 136 - Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land ; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
الصفحة 38 - 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 for the honour of my majesty...
الصفحة 9 - And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon ; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia...
الصفحة 275 - So died Epaminondas, the worthiest man that ever was bred in that nation of Greece, and hardly to be matched in any age or country ; for he equalled all others in the several virtues, which in each of them were singular. His justice and sincerity, his temperance, wisdom and high magnanimity, were no way inferior to his military virtue ; in every part whereof he so excelled that he could not properly be called a wary, a valiant, a politic, a bountiful, or an industrious, and a provident captain.
الصفحة 68 - I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
الصفحة 313 - ... establish and to destroy, and to bring all things, persons, and states to the same certain ends which the infinite spirit of the Universal, piercing, moving, and governing all things, hath ordained. Certainly, the things that this King did were marvellous and would hardly have been undertaken by...
الصفحة 9 - To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

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