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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. 1808 Excerpt: ... Necessity might rouse an avenger; some man of superior genius, not born in a seraglio, might put himself at the. head of an infuriate nation, atfd once more make Europe tremble at.the Turkish name. I Thfs is as probable a$ that the Porte will fell without resistance. The Turks are not effeminate; they are Hot unmanned, like the ancient Byzantines. Their priests promise paradise to those that fall in battle. The French Nation. JVlUST we then everywhere meet these harlequins, at fairs, and on the high-roads?--I have ever been averse from having much intercourse with them, and now they unfortunately occupy all avenues and roads of history so arrogantly and insolently, that the historian cannot proceed a step without meeting with them. And yet they blend so many amiable qualities with folly, that it is a difficult task to recount all the injury they have heaped upon us and posterity by their foolish proceedings. It is singular that a nation that hasnever, reflected, should give the world so much cause for serious reflection. The cause of the French, if we consider the serious part of it, seems to have been settled this long time; but there are still a great number of fools amongst them who continually begin the business anew. Errors and serious mistakes have been committed by either party, and this was not altogether unpardonable during the first revolutionary frenzy. The first effervescence of enthusiasm made many a grey-headed man childish, and many a wise head judge and act unwisely. But fifteen years replete with the most wonderful vicissitudes might have cooled the heads; and people who have not since recovered their recollection, cannot be expected to stand corrected by the warnings of history. The French have ever made fools of their European cotemporar...