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The geographical extent of the Fifth Monarchy was far greater than that of any one of the four which had preceded it. While Persia Proper is a comparatively narrow and poor tract, extending in its greatest length only some seven or eight degrees (less than 500 miles), the domi...
The geographical extent of the Fifth Monarchy was far greater than that of any one of the four which had preceded it. While Persia Proper is a comparatively narrow and poor trac...
3. Chapter 3It is evident that an Empire which extended over more than twenty degrees of latitude, touching on the one hand the tropic of Cancer, while it reached upon the other to the para...
4. Chapter 4“I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the hig...
5. Chapter 5It has been intimated in the account of the Median Empire which was given in a former-volume that the language of the Persians, which was identical, or almost identical, with th...
6. Chapter 6If in the old world the fame of the Persians, as builders and artists, fell on the whole below that of the Assyrians and Babylonians--their instructors in art, no less than in l...
7. Chapter 7The original form of the Persian religion has been already described under the head of the third or Median monarchy. It was identical with the religion of the Medes in its early...
8. Chapter 8“I saw the man pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beast might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did acco...