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destruction*. In vain, therefore, did the conqueror of land and sea 

 attempt to repair the bank of the Euphrates, which, obedient to HIS 

 voice, who first bade its waters roll, had burst its ancient mounds, 

 and widely inundated the country. With equal probability of 

 success he might have essayed to tear the centred sun from its orbit, 

 or drain the bed of the ocean of the volume of its Avaters. By the 

 divine fiat, and to promote its wonderful, but unfathomable, pur- 

 poses, Alexander had already far exceeded the usual limits assigned 

 to terrestrial power and human glory. He had also abused the 

 exalted talents intrusted to him, by impiously arrogating divine 

 honours both for himself and Hephajstion ; by the grossest in- 

 temperance; and, amidst its excesses, by the foul murder of more 

 than one friend ! A conspicuous and terrible example of the divine 

 displeasure, therefore, was in Alexander to be holden up to future 

 conquerors and to distant ages. He had now finished the splendid 

 but arduous task appointed him by the eternal decrees of Pro- 

 vidence. The spotted leopard-^-, with rapid wings and ravening 

 talons, or, as it has already been observed, he is elsewhere still more 

 emphatically depicted, the furious he-goat, from the west, with one 

 horn, (the DULCARNEIN of the Orientals:]:,) who is represented by 

 Daniel as bounding over the earth with such velocity as scarcely 

 to touch its surface , had finished his impetuous, his sanguinary 

 career. The subverter, by the permission of heaven, of the second 

 great empire of the world, is now to descend into the same grave 



* Isaiah xiii. 20. t Dan. vii. 5. J See page 591 preceding. 



And as I was considering, behold an he-goat came FROM THE WEST, on the face of the 

 whole earth, and TOUCHED NOT THE GROUND; and the goat had a NOTABLE HORN 

 between his eyes. Dan. viii. 5. 



