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Summary Of All The Arguments For And Against Richard Brothers.
the joint forces of Cyrus and Darius , who made attacks upon the Babylonish empire for near twenty years before its final destruction , Mr ' . Home then observes that this , vision which Daniel had was seventeen years before tlie occurrences in the preceding chapter . The second beast , like to a bear , which Mr . Brothers says means the present Empress of Russia * is thus defended by Halhed :
, " A bear is a just , apt , and congenial symbol for the Russian territory and empire . No other monarchy in Europe could be typ ified by this animal . Its raising up itself on one side ( see Daniel ) is , that it extended its dominions aiid exalted its power all on oiie side ; the Empress ' s exertions being directed towards the . South and aiming pointedly at Constantinople ; " This author in a long preamble then ,
concerning the three ribs , says , it is an allusion to her blood-thirsty appetite . Home understands this beast to be the Persian empire , which gradually rose to its then state of power and greatness ; and the three ribs , he tells us , mean Babylon , Lydia , and Egypt . Cyrus having subdued Ly dia in the time of Croesus , and Egypt being conquered by Nebuchadnezzar , still remained subject to the Babylonians , and . consequently , upon the reduction ofthe people , became tributary to Cyrus . ¦ .- ,
Halhed , in next trying to tame and familiarize the third beast , - which is like aleopafd , and which Brothers says means Lewis XV L late King of France , thus argues : Voltaire has described his countrymen as a compound ofthe monkey and tiger ; and a leopard has all the wantonness of a cat or monkey , united with the ferocity of a tiger ; the delicate variegation of the leopard ' s spots , & c . exactly mark out the Parisian petit-maitreSic *—This leopard of Daniel had four
, heads , one of which , according to St . John , iu the Revelations , was ' cut off and afterwards healed—an allusion , Brothers says , , fo the death of Charles I . of England , and the restoration of monarchy in Charles If . In order to interpret the whole beast , as representative of the King of Fiance , Halhed remarks , that Charles I . was betrothed to the infanta of Spainbut on going to Madrid incog , to see herand
, , being disgusted with her person , he broke off the match and returned home through Paris , where he fell in love with Henrietta of France , by which an union took place ; and thus the Stuart family were si supernumerary head on the body of the French monarchy ; but ^ . dying before it , Lewis XVI . is the second . On his decollation , the . present King of Spain is the third , being a lineal descendant of
Lewis XIV . of France- ; and the King of Sardinia is the fourth , whose dethronement Brothers predicts . The four wings of a fowl , ' mentioned by Daniel , are , according to Halhed , sails , i . e . the fleets of France , and their number is four , because those fleets pervade all
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Summary Of All The Arguments For And Against Richard Brothers.
the joint forces of Cyrus and Darius , who made attacks upon the Babylonish empire for near twenty years before its final destruction , Mr ' . Home then observes that this , vision which Daniel had was seventeen years before tlie occurrences in the preceding chapter . The second beast , like to a bear , which Mr . Brothers says means the present Empress of Russia * is thus defended by Halhed :
, " A bear is a just , apt , and congenial symbol for the Russian territory and empire . No other monarchy in Europe could be typ ified by this animal . Its raising up itself on one side ( see Daniel ) is , that it extended its dominions aiid exalted its power all on oiie side ; the Empress ' s exertions being directed towards the . South and aiming pointedly at Constantinople ; " This author in a long preamble then ,
concerning the three ribs , says , it is an allusion to her blood-thirsty appetite . Home understands this beast to be the Persian empire , which gradually rose to its then state of power and greatness ; and the three ribs , he tells us , mean Babylon , Lydia , and Egypt . Cyrus having subdued Ly dia in the time of Croesus , and Egypt being conquered by Nebuchadnezzar , still remained subject to the Babylonians , and . consequently , upon the reduction ofthe people , became tributary to Cyrus . ¦ .- ,
Halhed , in next trying to tame and familiarize the third beast , - which is like aleopafd , and which Brothers says means Lewis XV L late King of France , thus argues : Voltaire has described his countrymen as a compound ofthe monkey and tiger ; and a leopard has all the wantonness of a cat or monkey , united with the ferocity of a tiger ; the delicate variegation of the leopard ' s spots , & c . exactly mark out the Parisian petit-maitreSic *—This leopard of Daniel had four
, heads , one of which , according to St . John , iu the Revelations , was ' cut off and afterwards healed—an allusion , Brothers says , , fo the death of Charles I . of England , and the restoration of monarchy in Charles If . In order to interpret the whole beast , as representative of the King of Fiance , Halhed remarks , that Charles I . was betrothed to the infanta of Spainbut on going to Madrid incog , to see herand
, , being disgusted with her person , he broke off the match and returned home through Paris , where he fell in love with Henrietta of France , by which an union took place ; and thus the Stuart family were si supernumerary head on the body of the French monarchy ; but ^ . dying before it , Lewis XVI . is the second . On his decollation , the . present King of Spain is the third , being a lineal descendant of
Lewis XIV . of France- ; and the King of Sardinia is the fourth , whose dethronement Brothers predicts . The four wings of a fowl , ' mentioned by Daniel , are , according to Halhed , sails , i . e . the fleets of France , and their number is four , because those fleets pervade all