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  • And I knew enough even then to know that it wasn't Greek, or Old Egyptian, or Babylonian, or Hittite, or Chinese.†   (source)
  • 'That has the rivers of Babylon in it, sir,' the chaplain replied.†   (source)
  • Taken from Babylon.†   (source)
  • I took the huge volumes of the Palestinian Talmud from my father's library—the text we studied in school was the Babylonian Talmud—and checked its parallel discussions just to see how it differed from the discussions in the Babylonian Talmud.†   (source)
  • It was no wonder the Babylonians had once ruled the world.†   (source)
  • Chapter 18 — BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON   (source)
  • THE BABYLON STAKES†   (source)
  • What I saw now was the face of a recognition, the same face that Emile Luzan offered me that first day, too, in his cluttered thirdfloor office in Babylon, Long Island.†   (source)
  • The powerful king, who ruled ancient Babylon from 1792 to 1750 B.C., had a keen sense of right and wrong.†   (source)
  • Besieged, plundered, captured and recaptured, Jerusalem had been ruled by Jebusites, Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and, of course, the Jews.†   (source)
  • The one we used to call Babylon.†   (source)
  • That's what it says, 'Alas, Babylon.'†   (source)
  • The gardens were a serene and blossoming oasis amid the swarm of a chaotic Babylon.†   (source)
  • "In the ancient conflict of the Jews and the Babylonians," he said--but there he was cut off.†   (source)
  • -he looks more Asiatic, monkey, Jewish, Babylonian, Peruvian, fanatic, devil.†   (source)
  • It was lawlessness that came forth from Babylon!†   (source)
  • Under Hammurabi, Babylon became the dominant military and cultural power in the region.†   (source)
  • With its fancy palaces and temples, Babylon was one of the greatest cities of Mesopotamia.†   (source)
  • For instance, Babylon, like many other ancient societies, practiced trial by ordeal.†   (source)
  • "An Eye for an Eye" What trouble could a Babylonian get into?†   (source)
  • But if you hear 'Alas, Babylon,' you'll know that's it.†   (source)
  • But I'll tell you the word from Babylon.†   (source)
  • So this: Babylon is fallen, but so is Israel.†   (source)
  • I knew it was a-comin', for it was all set down, Alas, Babylon!†   (source)
  • Alas, Babylon was a private, a family signal.†   (source)
  • It does not lead home to Babylon, but it may make Babylon once again a live option.†   (source)
  • In Babylon--I leap to essentials--personal immortality is a mad goal.†   (source)
  • The pursuit of Youth is ridiculous, the Babylonian says.†   (source)
  • But the Babylonians were an interesting people.†   (source)
  • The Babylonians had no science of medicine, at least nothing we'd recognize.†   (source)
  • And so, for thousands of years, the Babylonians survived.†   (source)
  • The Babylonian asked nothing but token acceptance of ruler and gods.†   (source)
  • His mind wandered vaguely to the Babylonian puppets, and he frowned.†   (source)
  • It was another of those mysteries of luck, as if all he'd read into the Babylonian rituals was true.†   (source)
  • So what would the Babylonian say about civil rights?†   (source)
  • Compare the Babylonian and the Israelite ways of assimilating the foreign.†   (source)
  • They have words for it in Old Babylonian, Sumerian, the rest.†   (source)
  • According to the Babylonians, the greatest responsibility is to remain absolutely free.†   (source)
  • I say this: The Babylonian gods were, to ordinary perception, brute objects.†   (source)
  • But the Babylonians saw the matter quite differently, if I'm not mistaken.†   (source)
  • I'm Babylonian, and you, you're one of the Jews.†   (source)
  • On the cover, a blonde in a quasi-Babylonian getup, a white robe tightly cinched under her unlikely breasts by a gold-link belt, her throat wound in lapis jewellery, a crescent moon in silver sprouting from her head.†   (source)
  • The Southern kingdom fared no better, being conquered by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. Its temple was destroyed and most of its people were carried off to slavery in Babylon.†   (source)
  • Wasn't that about the time I visited you in Babylon and you tried to marry me off to King Nebuchadnezzar?†   (source)
  • Yet since then, every day, more mighty kingdoms were rising up, in Mycenae and Troy, Anatolia and Babylon.†   (source)
  • Babel is a Biblical term for Babylon.†   (source)
  • Sophie suddenly saw a dozen people wrapped up like her, and a younger-looking Dora moving among them, dressed in a costume from ancient Babylon.†   (source)
  • Hence, she is also important in Babylonian, Assyrian, Canaanite, Hebrew, and Ugaritic myths, which are all descended from the Sumerian.†   (source)
  • Previously the Greeks, the Romans, the Egyptians, the Babylonians, the Syrians, and the Persians had worshipped their own gods within what we generally call a "national religion."†   (source)
  • Law less ness!" declared the Reverend, waving an arm impressively toward Babylon as if that turbulent locale lurked just behind the school latrine.†   (source)
  • And the Babylonians said"—here my father dropped his voice to a more conversational tone—" 'Can't you see Bel is a living God?†   (source)
  • So the Sumerians worshipped Enki, and the Babylonians, who came after the Sumerians, worshipped Marduk, his son.†   (source)
  • The Southern kingdom fared no better, being conquered by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. Its temple was destroyed and most of its people were carried off to slavery in Babylon.†   (source)
  • He devotes a great deal of effort to imparting his knowledge to his son, the god Marduk, chief deity of the Babylonians.†   (source)
  • "Now the Babylonians had an idol they called Bel," he declared, his voice the only clear thing in the haze that hung over us.†   (source)
  • But in the last century or so, as actual Babylonian ziggurats have been excavated, astrological diagrams-pictures of the heavens-have been found inscribed into their tops.†   (source)
  • This time Daniel was out to prove to the Babylonians that they were worshiping false idols, but even I was having trouble paying attention.†   (source)
  • …returned, the last heirs to Melquiades' science, and they found the town so defeated and its inhabitants so removed from the rest of the world that once more they went through the houses dragging magnetized ingots as if that really were the Babylonian wise men's latest discovery, and once again they concentrated the sun's rays with the giant magnifying glass, and there was no lack of people standing open-mouthed watching kettles fall and pots roll and who paid fifty cents to be…†   (source)
  • Reading across from left to right it looked as if my mother was slowly dissolving, from real life into a Babylonian bas-relief shadow.†   (source)
  • Those wanderings led him to the prostrate redlight district, where in other times bundles of banknotes had been burned to liven up the revels, and which at that time was a maze of streets more afflicted and miserable than the others, with a few red lights still burning and with deserted dance halls adorned with the remnants of wreaths, where the pale, fat widows of no one, the French great-grandmothers and the Babylonian matriarchs, were still waiting beside their photographs.†   (source)
  • You mentioned that you had a project called Babylon you were working on and I might be interested," Tyler said, sitting down an picking up a yellow pad.†   (source)
  • The Babylon Stakes was banned after one horse, 'Forced Potato,' managed to bite a jockey and then leapt the fence to attack as many as it could in the jeering gandhi enclosure.†   (source)
  • Babylon?†   (source)
  • A Lass Babylon?†   (source)
  • Babylon!†   (source)
  • Written in cuneiform, the Code was a list of 282 legal judgments that formed the basis of Babylonian law.†   (source)
  • He mentioned that he had not been to New York since the late 1930s and that, if anything, the city appeared more Babylonian in its dissolute wealth than ever.†   (source)
  • I wonder what 'Alas, Babylon' means?†   (source)
  • It seemed that he ended every lurid verse with, "Alas, Babylon!" in a voice so resonant you could feel it, if you rested your fingertips gently on the warped pine boards of the church.†   (source)
  • She always associated Babylon with New York, and she wished, now, that she lived on Manhattan, where one could die in a bright millisecond, without suffering, without risking the indignity of panic.†   (source)
  • Sometimes Preacher Henry made Babylon sound like Miami, and sometimes like Tampa, for he condemned not only fornication—he read the word right out of the Bible—but also horse racing and the dog tracks.†   (source)
  • If one fell off the dock, or lost all his cash at poker, or failed to make time with a promising Pistolville piece, or announced that hurricane or freeze was on the way, the other commiserated with, "Alas, Babylon!"†   (source)
  • Just one hour Alas, Babylon!†   (source)
  • ALAS, BABYLON.†   (source)
  • She read two verses, lips moving, words murmuring in her throat: And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.†   (source)
  • As a result, Mrs. Alas, Babylon <221 Vanbruuker-Brown, Acting President, in her capacity as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, has authorized all Reserve officers and National Guard officers, not in contact with their commanders or headquarters, to take independent action to preserve public safety in those areas where Civil Defense has broken down or where organized military units do not exist.†   (source)
  • Alas, Babylon.†   (source)
  • Alas, Babylon.'†   (source)
  • Randy and Mark would crouch under the rear window, behind the pulpit, fascinated and wide-eyed, while Preacher Henry described the Babylonian revels, including fornication.†   (source)
  • Babylon has fallen, and Troy has fallen, and no trace remains of the work of the greatest of sculptors.†   (source)
  • Rome proved later the wisdom of the ancient Babylonian choice, though Babylon itself was overcome by the furious stubbornness of Jews not yet gone soft, true fire-eaters--if you'll forgive it.†   (source)
  • SUNLIGHT: The towers of Babylon!†   (source)
  • So it was in ancient Babylon.†   (source)
  • I meant to say Babylon.†   (source)
  • SUNLIGHT: Babylon.†   (source)
  • Not Babylon!†   (source)
  • On the wall there behind you, those are Babylonian figures for the twelve houses--astrological houses.†   (source)
  • In politics the Babylonian would assert a close but mystical connection between rulers and the mumbling gods.†   (source)
  • SUNLIGHT (in the voice of a lecturer): You're familiar, I suppose, with the conflict of the Old Testament Jews and the Babylonians?†   (source)
  • Here the Babylonian imperative that one remain free raised even more difficult problems, as you can see.†   (source)
  • So the Babylonians understood that a man must be physically and spiritually prosperous, and that the two had no necessary relationship.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the Babylonians were right.†   (source)
  • But I say, with the Babylonian, Faddle!†   (source)
  • The Babylonian would say it consists, first, in stubbornly maintaining one's freedom to act--in my case, evasion of the police, you see--and, second, in jumping when the Spirit says, "Jump!"†   (source)
  • There's an old Mesopotamian story, very famous--it's one of the Naram-Sin legends; survives not only in texts from Nineveh and Harran but in Old Babylonian too.†   (source)
  • Rome proved later the wisdom of the ancient Babylonian choice, though Babylon itself was overcome by the furious stubbornness of Jews not yet gone soft, true fire-eaters--if you'll forgive it.†   (source)
  • Every Babylonian lives his life as fully as he can, but to the culture he is, himself, nothing, a unit, merely part of a physical and spiritual system.†   (source)
  • In the sexual sphere, from the ancient Babylonian point of view, one must never marry, or else one must maintain one's sexual independence in marriage.†   (source)
  • One of the most remarkable differences between the Babylonian and the Hebrew mind is that the Babylonian places no value whatever on individual human life.†   (source)
  • All the evidence we have--fragments, representations, clay replicas, even literary evidence--indicates that the Babylonian gods were conceived as actually residing in their images, effective only within the substance of their images.†   (source)
  • Whichever came first, the chickens or the egg, the Assyrians, Sumerians, and Babylonians loved substance in every form--they explored their flesh, tabulated the movements of the planets, studied the chemical components of matter, followed the seasons and made the finest calendars of the ancient world.†   (source)
  • BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON, by Stephen Vincent Benét.†   (source)
  • If the King of Babylon could get hanging gardens for his homesick lady, why not Gail Wynand?†   (source)
  • (He declaims) "The days grow hot, O Babylon!"†   (source)
  • HUGO—(quotes aloud to himself in a guttural declamatory style) "The days grow hot, O Babylon!†   (source)
  • His scientific precision was impeccable and his erudition astounding; no one could refute him on the cooking utensils of Babylon or the doormats of Byzantium.†   (source)
  • The past unrolled to him in separate and enormous visions; he built unending legends upon the pictures of the kings of Egypt, charioted swiftly by soaring horses, and something infinitely old and recollective seemed to awaken in him as he looked on fabulous monsters, the twined beards and huge beast-bodies of Assyrian kings, the walls of Babylon.†   (source)
  • Galahad, Percivale and Bors had found it, and with it, and with the body of Percivale's sister, they had arrived at Sarras in Babylon.†   (source)
  • Y' know, Babylon once had two million people in it, and all we know about 'm is the names of the kings and some copies of wheat contracts and—the sales of slaves.†   (source)
  • And when the diver had reached the bottom of the bottomless sea, he plucked the plant, though it mutilated his hand, cut off the stones, * Babylonian prototype of the biblical Noah.†   (source)
  • He waved his hand; and it was as though, with an invisible feather wisk, he had brushed away a little dust, and the dust was Harappa, was Ur of the Chaldees; some spider-webs, and they were Thebes and Babylon and Cnossos and Mycenae.†   (source)
  • The days grow hot, O Babylon!†   (source)
  • Having then subdued the remainder of her swarming host, the god of Babylon returned to the mother of the world: And the lord stood upon Tiamat's hinder parts, And with his merciless club he smashed her skull.†   (source)
  • He was the atom for which all life had been aplot—Caesar had died and a nameless wife of Babylon, and somewhere here, upon this marvellous dying flesh, this myriad brain, their mark, their spirit, rested.†   (source)
  • The Sumero-Babylonian astral mythology identified the aspects of the cosmic female with the phases of the planet Venus.†   (source)
  • The manifold gods of Babylon.†   (source)
  • "The days grow hot, O Babylon!†   (source)
  • This passage, missing from the standard Assyrian edition of the legend, appears in a much earlier Babylonian fragmentary text.†   (source)
  • But there was no word here of the loud raucous voice of America, political conventions and the Big Brass Band, Tweed, Tammany, the Big Stick, lynching bees and black barbecue parties, the Boston Irish, and the damnable machinations of the Pope as exposed by the Babylon Hollow Trumpet (Dem.†   (source)
  • …a tape, and the first stage of the Eiffel Tower where the restaurant was, and Frenchmen setting fire to their whiskers, and a farm in Devon, white cream, brown ale, the winter's chimney merriment, and Lorna Doone; and the hanging gardens of Babylon, and supper in the sunset with the queens, and the slow slide of the barge upon the Nile, or the wise rich bodies of Egyptian women couched on moonlit balustrades, and the thunder of the chariots of great kings, and tomb-treasure sought at…†   (source)
  • For an astounding revelation of the survival in contemporary Melanesia of a symbolic system essentially identical with that of the Egypto-Babylonian, Trojan-Cretan "labyrinth complex" of the second millennium .†   (source)
  • In Babylon!†   (source)
  • In the Babylonian version the hero is Marduk, the sun-god; the victim is Tiamat—terrifying, dragon-like, attended by swarms of demons—a female personification of the original abyss itself: chaos as the mother of the gods, but now the menace of the world.†   (source)
  • 159 It has been frequently remarked that the advice of the sibyl is hedonistic, but it should be noted also that the passage represents an initiatory test, not the moral philosophy of the ancient Babylonians.†   (source)
  • But if these deeds of the desperate children seem violent, they are as nothing compared with the total carving up of the parent power which we discover recorded in the Icelandic Eddas, and in the Babylonian Tablets of Creation.†   (source)
  • J. Knight has discussed the evident relationship of the Malekulan "journey of the soul to the underworld" with the classical descent of Aeneas, and the Babylonian of Gilgamesh,6' while W.J. Perry thought he could recognize evidences of this culture-continuity running all the way from Egypt and Sumer nut through the Oceanic area to North America.†   (source)
  • "I'd marry the W—— of Babylon rather than do anything dishonourable!†   (source)
  • "Come, is Babylon reformed, or have you degenerated?" she added, glancing with a simper at Kitty.†   (source)
  • You think of him as a sorrowful old man weeping by the rivers of Babylon.†   (source)
  • The vermin ditch of Benares is no less conducive to giddiness than the lions' ditch of Babylon.†   (source)
  • Emblazonings, as of crowned Babylonian kings and queens, reigned over everything.†   (source)
  • When the Babylonian hung gardens in the air, extravagance could push the idea no further.†   (source)
  • Babylon has no ideal; Carthage has no ideal.†   (source)
  • And the ark; accursed be the Babylonians who destroyed it!†   (source)
  • After the Babylonian splendor of the Hall, Martin expected to find the office of Dr. A. DeWitt Tubbs fashioned like a Roman bath, but it was, except for a laboratory bench at one end, the most rigidly business-like apartment he had ever seen.†   (source)
  • She would be able to look at them, and think not only that d'Urberville, like Babylon, had fallen, but that the individual innocence of a humble descendant could lapse as silently.†   (source)
  • Hans Castorp, however, retired to his balcony— his ears full of the hubbub and alarums of two armies, one from Jerusalem, the other from Babylon, advancing under the dos banderas and joining now in the confused tumult of battle.†   (source)
  • Passengers looking from trains saw her as a village woman of fading prettiness, incorruptible virtue, and no abnormalities; the baggageman heard her say, "Oh yes, I do think it will be a good example for the children"; and all the while she saw herself running garlanded through the streets of Babylon.†   (source)
  • The particular millionaire who owned the freehold of Wickham Place, and desired to erect Babylonian flats upon it—what right had he to stir so large a portion of the quivering jelly?†   (source)
  • This inexplicable incident, this reversal of my previous experience, seemed, like the Babylonian finger on the wall, to be spelling out the letters of my judgment; and I began to reflect more seriously than ever before on the issues and possibilities of my double existence.†   (source)
  • The scarlet woman and she of Babylon flaunted their vileness there; the cities of the plain were not more wicked.†   (source)
  • At a quarter to three Carol had left home; at half-past four she had created the Georgian town; at a quarter to five she was in the dignified poverty of the Congregational parsonage, her enthusiasm pattering upon Mrs. Leonard Warren like summer rain upon an old gray roof; at two minutes to five a town of demure courtyards and welcoming dormer windows had been erected, and at two minutes past five the entire town was as flat as Babylon.†   (source)
  • I'll grant you that much," Hans Castorp added, intending to return to the Chaldeans, who had also waged war and conquered Babylon, although they were Semites, and so practically Jews—when both of them at the same time noticed two gentlemen just ahead, who had heard them talking and interrupted their conversation now to turn and look back.†   (source)
  • To be sure, just as Herr Settembrini had put it so graphically, the comforts on an ocean liner allowed one only superficially to forget the real situation and its dangers, and there was, if he might be permitted to add a comment of his own, even a kind of frivolous provocation about that perfect comfort, somewhat like what the ancients called hubris (in his desire to please, he was even citing the classics)—"I am the king of Babylon," and that sort of thing—in a word, sacrilege.†   (source)
  • Where now are the Philistines, who so often held the children of Israel in bondage? or that city of Babylon, which rioted in luxury and vice, and who styled herself the Queen of Nations in the drunkenness of her pride?†   (source)
  • Many of the villages of Mesopotamia are built of second-hand bricks of a very good quality, obtained from the ruins of Babylon, and the cement on them is older and probably harder still.†   (source)
  • You see cones imperfectly formed, irregular pyramids, with a fantastic disarrangement of lines; but here, as if to exhibit an example of regularity, though in advance of the very earliest architects, she has created a severely simple order of architecture, never surpassed either by the splendours of Babylon or the wonders of Greece.†   (source)
  • …aloud, and profited by the new opening the trapper had made, to shift the grounds of the discussion— "By Old and New World, my excellent associate," he said, "it is not to be understood that the hills, and the valleys, the rocks and the rivers of our own moiety of the earth do not, physically speaking, bear a date as ancient as the spot on which the bricks of Babylon are found; it merely signifies that its moral existence is not co-equal with its physical, or geological formation."†   (source)
  • There is iron-dust on everything; and the smoke is seen through the windows rolling heavily out of the tall chimneys to mingle with the smoke from a vaporous Babylon of other chimneys.†   (source)
  • You are young and rich—leave Paris—all is soon forgotten in this great Babylon of excitement and changing tastes.†   (source)
  • Human beings, in their generous endeavour to construct a hypothesis that shall not degrade a First Cause, have always hesitated to conceive a dominant power of lower moral quality than their own; and, even while they sit down and weep by the waters of Babylon, invent excuses for the oppression which prompts their tears.†   (source)
  • And let me warn you, that it is dangerous to copy the example of a nation (Babylon) whose crimes, towering up to heaven, were thrown down by the breath of the Almighty, burying that nation in irrecoverable ruin.†   (source)
  • Such was Hillel the Babylonian!†   (source)
  • "Nay, we might have judged that such a child's mother must needs be a scarlet woman, and a worthy type of her of Babylon!†   (source)
  • And some day or other (but it will be after our time, thank goodness) Hyde Park Gardens will be no better known than the celebrated horticultural outskirts of Babylon, and Belgrave Square will be as desolate as Baker Street, or Tadmor in the wilderness.†   (source)
  • Besides all this, he had read his Bible, including the apocryphal books; Poor Richard's Almanac, Taylor's Holy Living and Dying, The Pilgrim's Progress, with Bunyan's Life and Holy War, a great deal of Bailey's Dictionary, Valentine and Orson, and part of a History of Babylon, which Bartle Massey had lent him.†   (source)
  • I will not tell you, poor old man, to go and visit the sepulchral chambers of the pyramids, of which ancient Herodotus speaks, nor the brick tower of Babylon, nor the immense white marble sanctuary of the Indian temple of Eklinga.†   (source)
  • Babylon violated lessens Alexander, Rome enchained lessens Caesar, Jerusalem murdered lessens Titus, tyranny follows the tyrant.†   (source)
  • London, which—which I have read about as the modern Babylon of civilization, seems to have disappeared.†   (source)
  • 'In bidding adieu to the modern Babylon, where we have undergone many vicissitudes, I trust not ignobly, Mrs. Micawber and myself cannot disguise from our minds that we part, it may be for years and it may be for ever, with an individual linked by strong associations to the altar of our domestic life.†   (source)
  • To have been Belshazzar, King of Babylon; and to have been Belshazzar, not haughtily but courteously, therein certainly must have been some touch of mundane grandeur.†   (source)
  • She poured it out upon the square, on the walks, on the streets, and the old Norman city outspread before her eyes as an enormous capital, as a Babylon into which she was entering.†   (source)
  • At Notre-Dame it was a tiny cell situated on the roof of the side aisle, beneath the flying buttresses, precisely at the spot where the wife of the present janitor of the towers has made for herself a garden, which is to the hanging gardens of Babylon what a lettuce is to a palm-tree, what a porter's wife is to a Semiramis.†   (source)
  • So you've come back to our corrupt Babylon," she said, giving him her tiny, yellow hand, and recalling what he had chanced to say early in the winter, that Moscow was a Babylon.†   (source)
  • "Well, well," said old Hammond, "perhaps after all it is more like ancient Babylon now than the 'modern Babylon' of the nineteenth century was.†   (source)
  • It may, therefore, be easily imagined there is no scarcity of guides at the Colosseum, that wonder of all ages, which Martial thus eulogizes: "Let Memphis cease to boast the barbarous miracles of her pyramids, and the wonders of Babylon be talked of no more among us; all must bow to the superiority of the gigantic labor of the Caesars, and the many voices of Fame spread far and wide the surpassing merits of this incomparable monument."†   (source)
  • 'Under the impression,' said Mr. Micawber, 'that your peregrinations in this metropolis have not as yet been extensive, and that you might have some difficulty in penetrating the arcana of the Modern Babylon in the direction of the City Road, — in short,' said Mr. Micawber, in another burst of confidence, 'that you might lose yourself — I shall be happy to call this evening, and install you in the knowledge of the nearest way.'†   (source)
  • When he had fixed his piercing look on this modern Babylon, which equally engages the contemplation of the religious enthusiast, the materialist, and the scoffer,—"Great city," murmured he, inclining his head, and joining his hands as if in prayer, "less than six months have elapsed since first I entered thy gates.†   (source)
  • Dantes was a man of great simplicity of thought, and without education; he could not, therefore, in the solitude of his dungeon, traverse in mental vision the history of the ages, bring to life the nations that had perished, and rebuild the ancient cities so vast and stupendous in the light of the imagination, and that pass before the eye glowing with celestial colors in Martin's Babylonian pictures.†   (source)
  • We do not speak of the immense exile of Patmos who, on his part also, overwhelms the real world with a protest in the name of the ideal world, who makes of his vision an enormous satire and casts on Rome-Nineveh, on Rome-Babylon, on Rome-Sodom, the flaming reflection of the Apocalypse.†   (source)
  • The airs of the Via Sacra are well enough in the streets of the Egyptian and in Babylon; but in Jerusalem—our Jerusalem—the covenant abides.†   (source)
  • Paris, that model city, that patron of well-arranged capitals, of which every nation strives to possess a copy, that metropolis of the ideal, that august country of the initiative, of impulse and of effort, that centre and that dwelling of minds, that nation-city, that hive of the future, that marvellous combination of Babylon and Corinth, would make a peasant of the Fo-Kian shrug his shoulders, from the point of view which we have just indicated.†   (source)
  • Esther is asleep; and now, having crossed the river by the bridge, and made way through the lion-guarded gate and a number of Babylonian halls and courts, let us enter the gilded saloon.†   (source)
  • We have nothing more to say; and it is with a sort of terror that we look on, at the bottom of that sea which is called the past, behind those colossal waves, at the shipwreck of those immense vessels, Babylon, Nineveh, Tarsus, Thebes, Rome, beneath the fearful gusts which emerge from all the mouths of the shadows.†   (source)
  • And of the three children of Judah who refused the image of the Babylonian, lo! that one who, in the feast to the thousand lords, so confounded the astrologers.†   (source)
  • …branches, goose-feet, stars, as in military mines, coecum, blind alleys, vaults lined with saltpetre, pestiferous pools, scabby sweats, on the walls, drops dripping from the ceilings, darkness; nothing could equal the horror of this old, waste crypt, the digestive apparatus of Babylon, a cavern, ditch, gulf pierced with streets, a titanic mole-burrow, where the mind seems to behold that enormous blind mole, the past, prowling through the shadows, in the filth which has been splendor.†   (source)
  • …Joseph said, "This is the house of my fathers," was to say the truth most simply and literally; for it was the very house Ruth ruled as the wife of Boaz, the very house in which Jesse and his ten sons, David the youngest, were born, the very house in which Samuel came seeking a king, and found him; the very house which David gave to the son of Barzillai, the friendly Gileadite; the very house in which Jeremiah, by prayer, rescued the remnant of his race flying before the Babylonians.†   (source)
  • When Bors saw that he was in so far countries as in the parts of Babylon he departed from Sarras, and armed him and came to the sea, and entered into a ship; and so it befell him in good adventure he came into the realm of Logris; and he rode so fast till he came to Camelot where the king was.†   (source)
  • But when Homer fleshes out this picture by showing Zeus presiding over a council of gods or by recounting how he rose to kingship by violently overthrowing his father, the nearest parallels are to be found among such figures as the Babylonian Marduk and the Hurrian-Hittite Kumarbi.†   (source)
  • Babylon.†   (source)
  • Elk and yak, the bulls of Bashan and of Babylon, mammoth and mastodon, they come trooping to the sunken sea, Lacus Mortis.†   (source)
  • The trip would benefit health on account of the bracing ozone and be in every way thoroughly pleasurable, especially for a chap whose liver was out of order, seeing the different places along the route, Plymouth, Falmouth, Southampton and so on culminating in an instructive tour of the sights of the great metropolis, the spectacle of our modern Babylon where doubtless he would see the greatest improvement, tower, abbey, wealth of Park lane to renew acquaintance with.†   (source)
  • 6 (This, this and these, America, shall be your pyramids and obelisks, Your Alexandrian Pharos, gardens of Babylon, Your temple at Olympia.†   (source)
  • 'There dwelt a man in Babylon, lady, lady.'†   (source)
  • 137:1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.†   (source)
  • It is argument sufficient they were written after the captivity in Babylon, that the History of them is continued till that time.†   (source)
  • Lo, irous Cyrus, thilke* Persian, *that How he destroy'd the river of Gisen,<21> For that a horse of his was drowned therein, When that he wente Babylon to win: He made that the river was so small, That women mighte wade it *over all.†   (source)
  • This Issachar was the most choleric Hebrew that had ever been seen in Israel since the Captivity in Babylon.†   (source)
  • Not Babylon Nor great Alcairo such magnificence Equalled in all their glories, to enshrine Belus or Serapis their gods, or seat Their kings, when Egypt with Assyria strove In wealth and luxury.†   (source)
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