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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1801 Excerpt:... PART I. For, in that event, his successor could not hare Nvw been in a condition to prosecute conquests of any kind; and would have had too much danger to apprehend from the east, to think of enlarging his empire to the west. These considerations, my lord, must induce you to prefer the more consistent, and probable narration of Xenophon, who informs us that Cyrus died in his native kingdom, at an advanced age; in the bosom of his family, and surrounded by his kindred and courtiers; when his empire was in the most prosperous state, and his affairs in the best order3'. And the judicious Strabo, not only tells us, that no regard is due to what historians have invented, concerning the war of Cyrus with the Massagetae, but that his tomb was to be seen, as late as the time of Alexander the Great, in a garden at Pasargada, the royal residence of the ancient kings of Persia, with an inscription to the following purport; "I am "Cyrus the founder of the Persian empire, and who "was lord of Asia. Envy me not this memorial51. Cambyses, though a less politic prince than his father, pursued his true interest in undertaking the conquest of Egypt. The experience of ages had evinced, that the humiliation of that kingdom was necessary to the peace and security of the western provinces of the Assyrian empire, which had been subjected to the Persian sway33. But Egypt was then flourishing in arts and arms, under the wise government of Amasis. served by Photius, countenances the same tradition, with some variation in regard to the issue of the war. But Ctesias is an author of too little credit to deserve refutation. 31. Xenoph. Cyropxd. lib., viii. 32. Strabo, Gcog. lib. xi. p. SOT, et lib. xv. p. 730. edit. Lutet. Paris. Typ. Reg. 1620. 33. See Lett. ix. ct auct. cit. This prin...