Trouvé 92 Résultats pour: History Of The Tower Of Babel

• What would you? There be books a many, and they are hard put to it that would trace the course of history, for the abundance of the matter therein comprised. (2 Maccabees 2, 25)

• So much, reader, for thy warning; and now go we back to our history. (2 Maccabees 6, 17)

• turn we to his son, Antiochus Eupator, that was born of a very ill father;✻ record we in brief the history of his reign, and the hazards of war that went with it. (2 Maccabees 10, 10)

• others, following at their heels, fell to burning tower and gateway alike, and made a bonfire of the blasphemers. (2 Maccabees 10, 36)

• There is here a tower fifty cubits in height, rising sheer above a heap of ashes that surrounds it; (2 Maccabees 13, 5)

• Such was the history of Nicanor; and since that time the city has been in Jewish possession. Here, then, I will make an end of writing; (2 Maccabees 15, 38)

• Nothing that has been, but lasts on still; nothing that will be, but has been already; he is ever repeating the history of the past. (Ecclesiastes 3, 15)

• Thy neck rising proudly, nobly adorned, like David’s embattled tower, hung about with a thousand shields, panoply of the brave; (Song of Solomon 4, 4)

• Thy neck rising proudly like a tower, but all of ivory; deep, deep thy eyes, like those pools at Hesebon, under Beth-rabbim Gate; thy nose imperious as the keep that frowns on Damascus from the hill-side. (Song of Solomon 7, 4)

• One hour of misery, how it can efface in the memory long years of ease! Only a man’s death-bed brings the full history of his fortunes to light. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 29)

• there are times when a man of piety sees truth clearer than seven sentinels high in a watch-tower. (Ecclesiasticus 37, 18)

• Poor Sion, forlorn as vineyard watch-tower, summer-house in a herb-garden, a beleaguered city! (Isaiah 1, 8)