The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The history of the worldThe University Press, 1829 - English literature |
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Agesilaus Alexander Alexander's ambassadors Antigonus Antipater Aridæus army Artaxerxes Athenians Athens Babylon Balthasar battle began Bessus brought called Cambyses camp captains Cassander caused commanded confederates courage Craterus Cyrus danger Darius daughter death defend Demetrius Dercyllidas desire Egypt Egyptian empire enemies Eumenes father fear fight fleet followed forces fortune friends gave give Grecians Greece Greeks hands hath held Hereupon Herodotus honour hope hundred invaded king king's kingdom Lacedæmonians land liberty lord loss Lysimachus Macedon Macedonians Mardonius matter means Medes Nabuchodonosor nations Olympiad Parmenio Pausanias peace Peloponnesus Perdiccas Persian persuaded Pharnabazus Philip Phocians Polysperchon princes provinces Ptolomy Pyrrhus reign rest river Romans saith SECT Seleucus sent shewed ships slain soldiers soon sought Sparta succour taken Thebans Thebes thereby things thought thousand foot thousand horse Tissaphernes took town unto valour victory Wherefore wherein whereof wherewith whilst Xenophon Xerxes
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Page 32 - 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...
Page 60 - O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed: there is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him...
Page 59 - 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.
Page 3 - 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 mill-stones, and the light of the candle.
Page 62 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
Page 62 - Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
Page 3 - 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.
Page 3 - 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...
Page 6 - And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come, and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.
Page 307 - ... of his enemies into cowardice ; such spirits have been stirred up in sundry ages of the world, and in divers parts thereof, to erect and cast down again, to 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.