crowd Irene came, led by her royal lover, and sparkling in all the jewels of Golconda. When filent wonder held the affembly mute, mixed as it was of warriors and of citizens, the monarch thus addreffed them: "Servants and foldiers! from this hour confefs you are not flaves to "an unworthy fovereign: behold this model of perfection here, and "learn, that he who can thus mafter his own paffions, deferves to rule “the world, and with your help will conquer it." So faying, with his left hand he seized Irene by the flowing hair, and with one fudden ftroke of his truc fcymitar cut off her head, and toffed it to the terrified. fpectators. On this strange act of favage magnanimity muft Retrospection paufe a while; reflecting, that as it confirmed the Sultan in his dear-bought power, fo it extinguifhed every diftant hope of Chriftianity's revival in OR A REVIEW OF THE MOST STRIKING AND IMPORTANT EVENTS, CHARACTERS, SITUATIONS, AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES, WHICH THE LAST EIGHTEEN HUNDRED YEARS HAVE PRESENTED ΤΟ ΤΗΣ VIEW OF MANKIND. A la vérité ce n'est ici qu'un fragment, mais dans les travaux les plus achevés des hommes il n'y a que des fragments. L'histoire d'un roi n'est qu'un fragment de celle de sa dynastie, celle de sa dynastie de celle de fon royaume, celle de fon royaume de celle du genre humain ; qui n'est elle-même qu'un fragment de celle des êtres qui habitent le globe, dont l'hiftoire univerfelle ne serait après tout qu'un bien petit chapitre de l'histoire des astres innombrables qui roulent sur nos têtes à des distances qu'on ne peut assigner. Perre. BY HESTER LYNCH PIOZZI. WITH A PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. London: PRINTED FOR JOHN STOCKDALE, PICCADILLY. 1801. |