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Textin the purifit of an invitible foe, who forns his efforts, and fairly reposis in the heart of the burning follicle. The area and defines of the Bedowners are not only the disparard of their own freedom, but the barriers alio of the Huppy Arabia, whole hublishing, remains from way, we canvated by the leaves of the lid and climate. The regions of Angulfus meled away in difc eafe and lailitude; and it is only by a natural power that the reflection of Yemen has been facedtically attempt. ed. When Mahomer excited his holy fhandard, that Kingdom was a province of the Perian empire , yet few princes of the Thomas still regned in the mountains and the viegeregent of Chofroes was tempat ed to forget his distant country and his unfortunate matter. The influence of the age of Julianian pyr-ion the flux of the independant Arabia, who were divided by interlt or affection in the long quarral of the Eafs, the tribe of Caffan was allowed to exem on the Syrian territory: the princes of Fira were per mitted to form a city about forty miles to the south ward of the ruins if theybaby. Their favorite in the field was Ipeels and vigorous but their friendship was venal, their faith incoulant, their enemy capricions - it was an offer talk to excite them to dither these roving babarian's i and, in the familiar intercourse of war, they learned to fee, and to defiple, the fifandf weakeland both of Rome and of Parties. From Meec to the Euphrates, the Arabian tribes were confounded by the Greeks and Latinas, under the general ap- pellation of Saracens; a name which every Christian mouth has been taught to pronounce with termur and abonance.

Text"The flavors of domanticly tramway may vastly exist in their national independence / but the Arab is performally first; and he enjoys, in force degree, the benefits of society, without torturing the imperative of nature. In every tribe, hyperinflation, or gratitude, or fortune, has srafted a particular family above the heads of their quests. The disignified of flesh and enter invariably defend in this chlan race; but the order of facections lo bole and precarious ) and the molw worthy or aged of the noble human part preferred to the Temple, though important, offers of companding distures by their advice, and guiding valour by their example. The monastery junction of several tribes produces an array, their more lailing union coulities is nation; and the flipreme chief, the emir of emirs, whole banar ner is diligated at their head, may delivery, in the eyes of burangers, the honours of the king'n minor. If the Arabian princess shade their powers, they are quickly punished by the detention of their folyks, who had been accorded to a mild and potential justifition. Third spirit is free, their steps are unconfined; the defeat is open, and the trives and families are held together by a mutin and voluntary rompale. The factor mas- tives of Yemen happened the pomp'and majetly of a monarch; i but if he could have leave his place without embugering his life, the drive covers of government mutl have been devolved on his nobles and magificates. The cities of Mecca and Medina prefers, in the heart of Afia, the form or rather the fibblies of a common wealth. The grandfather of Malhomet, and his lined an celtors, appear in foreign and domestic translations as the princes of their country; but they reigned like Pendidies at Athens, or the Mediel at Florence, by the opinion of

Texttheir wifidom and integrity; their influence was divided with their patrimony; and the fleepte was transferred from the nucleo of the prophet to a younger branch of the tribine of Koredik. Ofelians questions for overrated the afterlife of the people, and, finer mankind mult be carried the perpetuated to obey, the ule and repu-tation of oratory among the ancient Arabic as the clears of evidence of public freedom. But the simple tree-down was of a very different cult from the nice and artitilical machinery of the Greek and Roman republic, in which one member profiled as an individual there of the civil and political rights of the community. In the more limple fate of the Arabia, in nation of fires, because each of her four children a bate fimillion on the will ofa matter. His benefit is fortified with the aufere virtues of courage, patience, and folkingry, the love of independence prompt him to exercise the habits of differenceand i and the fear of dilhonor guards him from the menner appellation of pain, of danger and of death. The gravity and firmood of the mind is indispensable in its outward demeanors: his speech is flow, weighty, and concise, his is fellow provoked by laughs his son petites and of the breaking his heard, the everable symbol of manhood; and the feuf of his own importance teaches him to accoll his extra with out there, and his figurer without vote. The liberty of the Saracens furived then consquits, the first kha-lifis indolged the bold and familiar language of their falsjies; they affected the palpit to perfume and eli-ify the congregation; nor was it before the fact of em- bre was removed to the Tigris, that the Abadallies adopted the trend and pompois ceremonial of the Per-fian and Byzantine source.

Text"In the fluidy of nations and men, we may obectively the cutises the reader them hostile or friendly to each other, thus tend to narrow or enlarging to modify or cease, the focal character. The separation of the Arabia from the end of mankind has cautioned them to content of the ideas of Buranger and caseny; i and the poverty of the land has introduced a ramion of jurisprudence, which they believe and predicate to the penalt hour. They pretend, that in the divilion of the earth the rich and fertile climates were aligned to the other branches of the humanity, and that the potifect of the culture Timal might recover, by fraud or force, the portion of inheritance of which he had been multiply deprived. According to the remark of Pliny, the Arabian tribes are equally addicted to theft and merchandile : the caravans that traverse the dictare are numbered to plibged; and the neighbour faces the remote times (JO and Sefdrirs, have been the victims of their rapacious spirit. If a Bedown difcovers from allar a solitary travelling, bride fut-only against him, evying, with a loud voice, "Uthat's Mytific thy want (my wife) is without a garment." A ready fumiffon linitiske him to neoyre, radiance will provide the aggregate, and his own blood mult explote the blood which he performs to fled in legitimate de- fence. A large robber, no a few allocations, are banded with their genuine names, but the exploits of a numerous hand offline the character of lawful and homorable war. The tempted a souple, this aimed again mankind, was doubly influential by the domliele defence of rupine, murder, and revege. In the con-fifution of Europe, the right of peace and war is