The history of the life of Nader Shah, King of Persia. Extracted from an Eastern manuscript, which was translated into French by order of His Majesty the King of Denmark ... / With an introduction ... and an appendix ... By William Jones, esq.
- Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi
- Date:
- 1773
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The history of the life of Nader Shah, King of Persia. Extracted from an Eastern manuscript, which was translated into French by order of His Majesty the King of Denmark ... / With an introduction ... and an appendix ... By William Jones, esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![liberty of his country, which the profligate Tyrant OSlavius finally extinguished with the lame deteftable inftrument: and the infatiable avarice of Princes, joined to the pride of con- queft and the love of dominion, has filled the world with terrour and mifery, from Sefojiris who invaded Africk and Europe, to the three mighty potentates, who are ravaging Poland. How much more Splendid would their glory have been, if, in Head of railing their fame on the fubverfion of kingdoms, they had applied their whole thoughts to the patronage of arts, fcience, letters, agriculture, trade; had macie their nations illuftrious in wifdom, extenfive in commerce, eminent in riches, firm in virtue, happy in freedom ; and had chofen rather to be the Benefactors, than the Deftroyers, of the human fpecies! Thefe fentiments, which, as nothing can prevent my entertaining them, fo nothing Piatt prevent my exprefling as forcibly as I am able, were fufficient to have deterred me from ever attempting to write 'The Lije of a Conqueror; unlefs it had been for the fake of expofing a character of all others the mofc infamoufly wicked, and of displaying the charms of liberty by Showing the edioufnefs of tyranny and op- preflion : but a circumftance, which it will be proper to relate from the beginning, induced me to depart from my refolution, and hurried me from the contemplation of civil and pacifick a 2] virtues](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30529967_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
