Esther: The Hebrew-Persian QueenH.H. Bancroft & Company, 1859 - 353 pages |
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... doubts " -Contradictory statements do not disprove personal history - General Jackson's battle of New Orleans - Objections not conclusive - Dr . Johnson's rule - Patriarchal stories - Trust in Providence- God's agents are everywhere ...
... doubts " -Contradictory statements do not disprove personal history - General Jackson's battle of New Orleans - Objections not conclusive - Dr . Johnson's rule - Patriarchal stories - Trust in Providence- God's agents are everywhere ...
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... doubt he wished , at the same time that he was thus arousing them , to make them develop the riches of their country , and doubtless , also , he was quite willing , as a conqueror , to take the lion's share , but in as honorable a way ...
... doubt he wished , at the same time that he was thus arousing them , to make them develop the riches of their country , and doubtless , also , he was quite willing , as a conqueror , to take the lion's share , but in as honorable a way ...
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... doubt among scholars that it was written originally in Hebrew . Foreign names are found in the writings of Moses and in Daniel , as well as in other parts of the Old Testa ment , but no one denies on that account that Hebrew is their ...
... doubt among scholars that it was written originally in Hebrew . Foreign names are found in the writings of Moses and in Daniel , as well as in other parts of the Old Testa ment , but no one denies on that account that Hebrew is their ...
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... applied to Xerxes , Cyrus , or Alexander , would prove that such men never lived . Archbishop Whately has applied the argument with great force in his " Historic Doubts , " concerning Napolean Bonaparte . The argument stands . thus :
... applied to Xerxes , Cyrus , or Alexander , would prove that such men never lived . Archbishop Whately has applied the argument with great force in his " Historic Doubts , " concerning Napolean Bonaparte . The argument stands . thus :
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... doubt the difficulty of fixing the identity of Aha- suerus has been enhanced from the fact that the same name has been given to two other Persian kings in the Bible -to Cambyses , the son of Cyrus , in Ezra iv .: 6 ; and to Astyages ...
... doubt the difficulty of fixing the identity of Aha- suerus has been enhanced from the fact that the same name has been given to two other Persian kings in the Bible -to Cambyses , the son of Cyrus , in Ezra iv .: 6 ; and to Astyages ...
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