The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The history of the worldThe University Press, 1829 - History, Ancient |
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Page 513 - thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of the sun. For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun,
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Page 680 - f But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction : for he transgressed against the Lord his God, and went into the temple of the
Page 538 - thyself long life, neither hast thou asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies, behold, I have done according to thy words.
Page 629 - For it was well noted by that worthy gentleman ' sir Philip Sidney, that historians do borrow of poets, not only much of their ornament, but somewhat of their substance. Informations are often false, records not always true, and notorious actions commonly insufficient to discover the passions, which did set them first on foot.
Page 431 - Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that over-lived Joshua,, so
Page 435 - said there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was good in his own eyes.
Page 632 - Who rules the duller earth, the wind-swoln streams, The civil cities, and th' infernal realms, Who th' host of heaven and the mortal band Alone doth govern by his just command: then shall we find the quite contrary. In him there is no uncertainty nor change ; he foreseeth all things, and all things disposeth to
Page 739 - Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder and shaking, and a great noise, a whirlwind and a tempest, and
Page 525 - the temple a hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver, and of brass and iron