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... Persia , and Media , are all familiar topics of biblical history . Ancient cities too - Thebes , -the No - Ammi of Nahum - Nineveh , Jerusalem , Babylon , with all that rendered them the wonders of the world , would be traced to the ...
... Persia , and Media , are all familiar topics of biblical history . Ancient cities too - Thebes , -the No - Ammi of Nahum - Nineveh , Jerusalem , Babylon , with all that rendered them the wonders of the world , would be traced to the ...
Page 92
... Persia , then under the sovereignty of Cherdorlaomer , had every thing to learn on this subject from the Hebrews . " What nation , " says the God of Israel to his chosen people , " what na- tion is there so great , that hath statutes ...
... Persia , then under the sovereignty of Cherdorlaomer , had every thing to learn on this subject from the Hebrews . " What nation , " says the God of Israel to his chosen people , " what na- tion is there so great , that hath statutes ...
Page 93
... Persia , their laws were the subjects of remark and notoriety ; for Haman speaks of them to the king as " diverse from the laws of all people . " That the extent to which the laws of Greece were indebted to the institutions of Moses was ...
... Persia , their laws were the subjects of remark and notoriety ; for Haman speaks of them to the king as " diverse from the laws of all people . " That the extent to which the laws of Greece were indebted to the institutions of Moses was ...
Page 105
... Persia also were equally stran- gers to civil liberty . And with some partial re- strictions , by which the authority of the former was controlled by established customs , and that of the latter by the senate , such was the character of ...
... Persia also were equally stran- gers to civil liberty . And with some partial re- strictions , by which the authority of the former was controlled by established customs , and that of the latter by the senate , such was the character of ...
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... . Wherever they have been in power , they have always been an intolerant people . When Morde- cai was prime minister at the Persian Court under the reign of Artaxerxes Longimanus , " many of the THE RIGHTS OF CONSCIENCE . 131.
... . Wherever they have been in power , they have always been an intolerant people . When Morde- cai was prime minister at the Persian Court under the reign of Artaxerxes Longimanus , " many of the THE RIGHTS OF CONSCIENCE . 131.
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