Charles Caleb Colton Quote

The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.


Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan (ed. 1823)


The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do...

The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do...

The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do...

The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do...