Religious Opinions Of The Presidents

-. j lev of tlie Tigris, I see ftMpr, ana nis humo, e and Ninevu arising. Tlien Niniae, and bis Scinoranns mproving Nint-va, and Babylu; but from Ninias to Sardinapilus, a space of üOQ years, l see as n t'ie t'wiight n vast peu ple tlicre moviiJtf lu nd fro, and often nmidt ;" their n:ovin8 l Ijcar tlie sliout of war, and e see Ibe blood of carnage; but loystery resta ie „n Jill tbeir doings. Bat t'e day of liistorical 3, truth again shine3 forth frora the time of jf Sardinapilus; and 1 see Babyion rising to itfl - ■;erfeciion,its towers and iis gardens in the j sky, its palaces, its mtel chnhdist, Q))d its hoats of warriors; and Ncbucharrnezzar umi Cyrus 'G Cambveie, Dariuá, umi Alesandcr, j)as before