 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace : and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.  The Saturday Magazine - Page 1061833Full view - About this book
 | Baptists - 1839 - 758 pages
...they drank wine and praised the gods of gold and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone ; In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the •wall of the king's palace ; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote : Then... | |
 | John Newland Maffitt - American poetry - 1839 - 162 pages
...They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the King's palace; and the King saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the... | |
 | George Windus Woodhouse - 1839 - 334 pages
...gold, and could delight in the company of his lords and his concubines. Hut when there came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick, upon the plaister of his palace-wall, at that very moment his joy and revelry were gone. It little mattered that he was... | |
 | Samuel Miller - College presidents - 1840 - 376 pages
...public Fast appointed by government during the American war, he took his text from Daniel v. 5, 25: In the same, hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick, upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote — Jlnd... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pages
...gorgeously enumerated, with the princes, the king's concubines, and his wives. Then follows — • " In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace ; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Bible - 1841 - 390 pages
...drank wine, and praised the goda of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. 5. In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace ; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. 6. Then... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 764 pages
...earth. And awful was the warning which God thereupon publicly administered to this -wicked prince. " In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand,...upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace." So ended all the guilty pleasures of Belshazzar's feast. Dashed was the cup of drunkenness from lips... | |
 | Anglican fathers - 1842 - 402 pages
...orgies ; and the seven-branched candlestick shed its flood of light over the idolatrous assembly. " But in the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand,...against the candlestick, upon the plaister of the wall, upon the king's palace ; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote." The hour of reproof was... | |
 | Bible - 1842 - 540 pages
...drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace : and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the... | |
 | George Jones - 1843 - 572 pages
...was the surface upon which was traced the handwriting at Belshazzar's Feast, — this was 538 B. c. " In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand,...upon the plaister of the wall of the King's palace." [Dan. v. 5.] Another analogy is found upon this point of art, as being used by both the ancient Tyrians... | |
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