The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The history of the world |
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Page 515 - I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and will take thy wives before 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, 2 Sam.
Page 472 - It shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, and to keep all the words of this
Page 663 - 5. £ 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 Lord to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
Page 515 - 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, 2 Sam. xii.
Page 523 - to the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his Judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law
Page 783 - Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before
Page 433 - it is written, that Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that over-lived Joshua, so
Page 540 - God. And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing; and hast not asked for thyself long life, neither hast thou asked
Page 616 - presence of their Lord, whom they faithfully serve; in whose presence is the fulness of joy, and at whose right hand are pleasures for evermore, Psalm xvi. 11.
Page 613 - 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.