 | William Jay - 1828 - 408 Seiten
...power to charm : and though he was ignorant of the meaning of the inscription, he foreboded evil ; and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. If a man IN PROSPERITY. was at the most enchanting banquet, with a sword hanging over his head by a... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 734 Seiten
...characters on the wall. What followed ?—" His countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another;" the ceremonies of submission performed by his nobles, and the topics of consolation suggested by his... | |
 | Extracts - 1828 - 786 Seiten
...What was it that made Belshazzar's countenance to change? Why did his thoughts trouble him, so lluit the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. when he saw the handwriting against the wall, in the midst of all his mirth and jollity? Was he afraid... | |
 | Joseph Fincher - 1829 - 442 Seiten
...upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts...were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. IN PRESERVING DANIEL WHEN CAST INTO THE DEN OF LIONS. DAN. vi. 10—17. Now when Daniel knew that the... | |
 | Esther Copley - 1829 - 742 Seiten
...remained, and though the king could not decipher it, his guilty conscience foreboded something amiss. His thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his...were loosed, and his knees smote one against another ! Poor guilty wretch ! Ah, how little could the splendour and luxury, the magnificence and gaiety,... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - 1829 - 580 Seiten
...him certain words which he understood not; wherewith so great a fear and amazement seized him, as a the joints of his loins were loosed, and his "knees smote one against the other. Which passion when he had in some part recovered, he cried out for his Chaldeans, astrologians,... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1829 - 308 Seiten
...on an opposite wall, threw him into such consternation, that his thoughts terrified him, the girdles of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. His terror, in such circumstances, cannot be supposed to have proceeded from a fear of man ; for he... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1830 - 304 Seiten
...the plaster of the wall of the king's palace : and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. 6 Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts...were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. 7 The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans and the soothsayers. And the king... | |
 | William Thorn - 1831 - 400 Seiten
...candlestick upon the plaister of the king's ' palace : and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. ' Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts...loosed, ' and his knees smote one against another. In that night was ' the king of the Chaldeans slain,' (DAN. v. 5, 6, 30.) Although the verb here expresses... | |
 | Samuel Wood (B.A.) - 1831 - 172 Seiten
...the king's palace ; and the king saw the part of the hand which wrote. Then the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the...were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. He could not tell what the writing was ; so he sent for his wise men, and promised that he would give... | |
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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. 
