... through all the city, for the space almost of forty days, there were seen horsemen running in the air, in cloth of gold, and armed with lances, like a band of soldiers, and troops of horsemen in array, encountering and running one against another,... Iceland: Its Scenes and Sagas - Page 201by Sabine Baring-Gould, Alfred Newton - 1863 - 447 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Mills - Crusades - 1821 - 558 pages
...Bohe»«.<•, theCroises. mond " ning one against another, with shaking of shields, and " multitude of pikes, and drawing of swords, and casting of "..." all sorts. Wherefore every man prayed that that appari" tion might turn to good." Maccabees, book ii. ch. 5. v. 2-4. As when, to warn proud cities,... | |
| William Brown - Jews - 1823 - 532 pages
...horsemen in array, encountering and running one against another, with shaking of shields, and multitude of pikes, and drawing of swords, and casting of darts,...glittering of golden ornaments, and harness of all sorts." The other passage is in Josephus's History of the War, vi. 5, where, when mentioning the prodigies... | |
| Erasmus Darwin - Botany - 1824 - 246 pages
...horsemen in array encountering and running one against another, with shaking of shields, and multitude of pikes, and drawing of swords, and casting of darts, and glittering of golden ornaments and harness." NOTE II.— PRIMARY COLOURS. Cling round the aerial bow with prisms bright, And pleased untwist the... | |
| Horace Smith - Jerusalem - 1828 - 328 pages
...seen in array, encountering and running one against another, with shaking of shields and multitude of pikes, and drawing of swords, and casting of darts,...glittering of golden ornaments, and harness of all sorts. And some beheld an angel of the Lord hovering over Jerusalem upon wings of purple and silver, playing... | |
| Bible - 1832 - 512 pages
...Compare sage in proof of the antiqui- 5 Mace. iii. 7. ty of the appearance of the shields, and multitude of pikes, and drawing of swords, and casting of darts, and glittering of golden ornaments, and armour of all sorts. 4 Wherefore every man prayed, that that apparition might turn to good. 5 Now when... | |
| William Stevens (biographer.) - 1833 - 786 pages
...horsemen in array, encountering and running one against another, with shaking of shields, and multitude of pikes, and drawing of swords, and casting of darts,...glittering of golden ornaments, and harness of all sorts.* Antiochus having obtained a second victory over the army of the Egyptians, took Memphis and all the... | |
| Charles Mills - Chivalry - 1844 - 542 pages
...happened that through the city, for the space of almost forty days, there were seen horsemen riding in the air, in cloth of gold, and armed with lances...casting of darts, and glittering of golden ornaments, tm<] harness of all sorts. Wherefore every man prayed that that apparition might turn to good." —... | |
| David Davidson (LL.D.) - Christianity - 1844 - 300 pages
...horsemen in array, encountering and running one against another, with shaking of shields, and multitude of pikes, and drawing of swords, and casting of darts,...man prayed that that apparition might turn to good." The history of the Jews of this age affords ample evidence that many of them remained unfeigned and... | |
| Adolf Schumann - Bible - 1849 - 356 pages
...soldiers, and troops of horsemen in array, encountering one another, with striking of shields and multitude of pikes, and drawing of swords, and casting of darts,...glittering of golden ornaments, and harness of all sorts" (v. 2, 3) ; moreover, that a celestial protector on horseback, in white clothing, shaking his armour... | |
| David Davidson - 1857 - 804 pages
...horsemen in array, encountering and running one against another, with shaking of shields, and multitude of pikes, and drawing of swords, and casting of darts,...man prayed that that apparition might turn to good." The history of the Jews of this age affords ample evidence that many of them remained unfeigned and... | |
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