The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The history of the worldThe University Press, 1829 |
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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 36 - 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 63 - 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 7 - 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.
Page 66 - 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 64 - 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 3 - In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me thither.
Page 66 - 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.
Page 34 - Yet thus saith the Lord God ; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered: and I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.
Page 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...
Page 7 - 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.