_AHASUERUS, READING IN THE CHRONICLES OF HIS KINGDOM, FINDS THAT MORDECAI HAD NOT BEEN REWARDED FOR DISCOVERING THE CONSPIRACY OF HIS CHAMBERLAINS. HE ENQUIRES OF HAMAN, WHAT SHOULD BE DONE TO THE MAN WHOM THE KING DESIRED TO HONOUR; AND, UPON HIS ANSWERING, COMMANDS HIM TO GIVE MORDECAI THOSE HONOU... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BOOK OF RECORDS OF THE CHRONICLES— In these _diaries,_ which we now call _journals,_ wherein was set down what passed every day, the manner of the Persians was, to record the names of those who had done the king any signal services. Accordingly, Josephus informs us, that, upon the secretary's re... [ Continue Reading ]
LET THE ROYAL APPAREL BE BROUGHT, &C.— To form a notion of that height of pride and arrogance at which Haman (who thought that all the honours he specified were designed for himself) was arrived, we may observe, that for any one to put on the royal robe, without the privity and consent of the king,... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN TOOK HAMAN THE APPAREL AND THE HORSE, &C.— When I read Pitt's account of the cavalcade at Algiers upon a person's turning Mahommedan, and which is apparently designed to do him, as well as their law, honour, I cannot forbear thinking of the manner in which Haman proposed to do a person honour,... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SAID HIS WISE MEN, &C.— As Mordecai had declared himself a Jew, to satisfy the people at court that he could not with a good conscience comply with the king's command relating to the reverence which was to be paid to Haman; and as the interposition of Providence in behalf of the Jewish nation,... [ Continue Reading ]