onians, Medes and Persians.]

Plate V, part B.

FOOTNOTES

_ 1 Of the Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres_, &c.
vol. iii. and iv.--Trans.

2 Pietate ac religione, atque hac una sapientia quod deorum
immortalium numine omnia regi gubernarique perspeximus, omnes gentes
nationesque superavimus. _Orat. de Arusp. resp._ n. 19.--Trans.

3 Ecclus. x. 8

4 The ancients themselves, according to Pindar, (_Olymp. Od._ vii.)
had retained some idea, that the dispersion of men was not the
effect of chance, but that they had been settled in different
countries by the appointment of Providence.--Trans.

5 Gen. xi. 8, 9.

6 "When the Most High divided the nations, and separated the sons of
Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the
children of Israel" (whom he had in view.) This is one of the
interpretations (which appears very natural) that is given to this
passage. Deut. xxxii. 8.--Trans.

7 Ecclus. xxxvi. 17, xxxix. 19.

8 Acts xv. 18.

9 I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I
will rid you out of their bondage. Exod. vi. 6. Out of the iron
furnace, even out of Egypt. Deut. iv. 20.--Trans.

10 Isaiah v. 26, 30, x. 28, 34, xiii. 4, 5.

11 Sennacherib.--Trans.

12 Ibid. x. 13, 14.

13 Isaiah x. 5.

14 Ibid. ver. 7.

15 Ibid. ver. 12.

16 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult is come up into mine
ears, therefore I will put my hook into thy nose, and my bridle in
thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
2 Kings xix. 28.--Trans.

17 Ezek. xxi. 19, 23.

18 Ibid. xxvi. xxvii. xxviii.

19 Ezek. xxviii. 2.

20 Ibid. xxix. 18, 20.

21 Dan. iv. 1-34.

22 This incident is related more at large in the history of the
Egyptians, under the reign of Amasis.--Trans.

23 Ibid. iv. 30.

24 Dan. iv. 31, 32.

25 Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I
have holden, to subdue nations before him and I will loose the loins
of kings to open before him the two-leaved gates, and the gates
shall not be shut.

I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: will
break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of
iron.