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Excerpt from Dissertations and Miscellaneous Pieces, Relating to the History and Antiquities, the Arts, Sciences, and Literature, of Asia, Vol. 4: Being the Whole of the Articles Contained in the Fourth Volume of the Asiatic Researches
Tan practical use of history, in affording patriots lar eraurples of civil and' military wisdom, has been greatly exaggerated; but principles of action my cot aninly be collected from it; and even the narrative of' stars and revolutions may serve as a lesson to nations antl'an admonition to sovereigns. A desire, indeed, of knowing past events, while the future cannot be known, and a view of the present, gives often mote pain than delight; seems natural to the human mind; and a happy propensity would it be, if every readc; of history would open his eyes to some very important? Corollaries, which flow from the whole extent of it.' He could 'not but remark the constant effect of desires rism in benumbing and debasing all those faculties. Which distinguish men from the herd that grazes; and to that cause he would impute the decided inferiority of most Asiatic nations, ancient and modern, to those in Europe who are blest with happier governments; he would see the Arabs rising to glory, while they ad hered to the free maxims of their bold ancestors, and sinking to misery from the moment when those max ims were abandoned. On the other hand, he would observe with regret, that such republican governments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
