 | William Beckford - 1834 - 414 ページ
...altogether lighter than vanity;" — and, in Daniel, the sentence against the King of Babylon, inscribed on the wall, " Thou art weighed in the balance, and found wanting." PAGE 86 — Balkis. This was the Arabian name of the Queen of Sheba, who went from the south to hear... | |
 | William Beckford - 1836 - 416 ページ
...altogether lighter than vanity;" — and, in Daniel, the sentence against the King of Babylon, inscribed on the wall, " Thou art weighed in the balance, and found wanting." PAGE 86. — Balkis. PAGE 87. — of an architecture unknown in the records of the earth — an immense... | |
 | 1924 - 680 ページ
...intimated that it is the only possible government for that country and will endure. I think he is mistaken. The writing on the wall, 'Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting," seems too visible. I no more believe in the long continuance of the dictatorship of the proletariat... | |
 | Joshua Noble Danforth - 1860 - 192 ページ
...glory. He can make pleasure-loving sinners tremble amid their feasts, as they behold the handwriting on the wall : " Thou art weighed in the balance, and found wanting." In view of the wide field opening before us, we resolved to invite that man of God, Rev. James Patterson,... | |
 | William Beckford - 1868 - 228 ページ
...altogether lighter than vanity." And in Daniel, the sentence against the king of Babylon inscribed on the wall: " Thou art weighed in the balance, and found wanting." P. 107. Balkis. This was the Arabian name of the Queen of Sheba, who went from the south to hear the... | |
 | William Beckford - 1868 - 240 ページ
...altogether lighter than vanity ;"—and, in Daniel, the sentence against the King of Babylon, inscribed on the wall, "Thou art weighed in the balance, and found wanting." PAGE ii^.—Balhis. , - -' This was the Arabian name of the Queen of Sheba, who went from the south... | |
 | Edward Bouverie Pusey - 1873 - 526 ページ
...are the first strong fears of Hell, borne in upon the soul by -God, the first time it sees as a hand- writing on the wall, "Thou art weighed in the balance, and found wanting b ; " its first deep dread that it may be for ever severed from God, and be for ever the sport of devils,... | |
 | 1879 - 480 ページ
...directed by the persevering man, that wherever there is a Belshazzar looking in terror at the hand-writing on the wall, "Thou art weighed in the balance, and found wanting," there is a Cyrus, strong in a manhood growing from a trained boyhood, marching in to take the management... | |
 | William Beckford - 1883 - 454 ページ
...altogether lighter than vanity." And in Daniel, the sentence against the king of Babylon inscribed on the wall : "Thou art weighed in the balance, and found wanting." Page 136. Balkis. This was the Arabian name of the Queen of Sheba, who went from the south to hear... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1892 - 278 ページ
...disobedience, from ages of folly, ages of crime. The misery of society is always but the handwriting on the wall : " Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting." Again, extensive attempts are not made to apply religion to life socially, though perhaps we do more... | |
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... and more ominous set of Questions than have ever risen in England's History before. As in the foregoing case, we have to be patient and keep hoping. 3°. In regard to France. It appears, noble old Teutschland, with such pieties, and unconquerable... 
