 | Edward Young - 1811 - 316 pages
...formidable sound in a British ear. " Is this the joyous city ? whose antiquity is of days remote ? whose merchants were princes, and her traffickers the honourable of the earth ? whose revenue was the harvest of rivers ? and her exchange the mart of nations ? who sat as a queen... | |
 | Daniel Wilson - Apologetics - 1828 - 832 pages
...and the ancient emporium of the world — of whose colonies Carthage, the rival of Rome, was one ; whose merchants were princes, and her traffickers the honourable of the earth ; which sat as a queen in the midst of the seas — I ask, who it was that said of her, / will lay... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - Bible - 1832 - 226 pages
...commerce. The words of the prophet Isaiah are remarkable, and are very applicable to our own land ; ' Her merchants were princes, and her -traffickers the honourable of the earth.' But they dealt in slaves, Ezek. xxvii. 13. and were defiled, as we read, ' by the iniquity of traffic ;'... | |
 | Daniel Wilson - Apologetics - 1832 - 418 pages
...the ancient emporium of the world — of whose colonies Carthage, the rival of Rome, was one ; — whose " merchants were princes, and her traffickers the honourable of the earth ;" which sat as a queen in the midst of the seas — I ask, who it was that said of her, " I will lay... | |
 | Francis Arundale - Eretz Israel - 1837 - 182 pages
...burning with impatience to examine the ruins of a place once the head of a huge commercial empire, whose " merchants were princes, and her traffickers the honourable of the earth," and respecting which the prophecies have been so completely and wonderfully fulfilled. " She shall... | |
 | Emma Meek - 1838 - 162 pages
...bread, and abundance of idleness," have drawn down the wrath of heaven on many a proud city. Tyre, whose merchants were princes, and her traffickers the honourable of the earth, is now a rock to spread nets on ; and Babylon, the beauty of the Chaldee's excellency, is swept with... | |
 | George Edward Biber - 1841 - 58 pages
...another," and so caused their power to be " partly strong, and partly broken ;" 4 of Tyre, " the crowning city, whose merchants were princes, and her traffickers the honourable of the earth ;" 5 of Tarshish, which " traded with all kind ' Dan. v. 24-28; viii. 3, 4 ; 20. * Dan. viii. 6—8;... | |
 | Periodicals - 1841 - 272 pages
...be readily apprehended by the general reader as all that remains of the stately Tyre, "the crowning city, whose merchants were princes, and her traffickers the honourable of the earth." This consideration induces the belief that a brief notice of the ancient and present state of the coast... | |
 | Eli Smith - Bible - 1841 - 744 pages
...surrounded by her fleets ; where the builders perfected her beauty in the midst of the seas ; where her merchants were princes, and her traffickers the honourable of the earth ; but alas ! " thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and... | |
 | Eli Smith - Bible - 1841 - 742 pages
...surrounded by her fleets ; where the builders perfected her beauty in the midst of the seas ; where her merchants were princes, and her traffickers the honourable of the earth ; but alas ! " thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and... | |
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Here was the little isle, once covered by her palaces and surrounded by her fleets ; where the builders perfected her beauty in the midst of the seas ; where her merchants were princes, and her traffickers the honourable of the earth... 
