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OF THE DEAD.
4i
CHARLES..
I will not dilute your Superiority as a General. It is not
sor me, a mere Mortal, to contend with Ac;
N?//WC7;,
ALEXANDER.
I Rippose you think my pretending that Jz/pRer was my
Father, as much entitles me to the name of a Madman, as your
extravagant behaviour at Bender does you. But you are
greatly miRakeu. It was not my Vanity, but my Policy,
which let up thatPretenhon. When I proposed to undertake
the conqueR of Aha, it was necehary forme to appear to the
People something more than a Man. They had been used
to the Idea of farcer. I therefore claimed an equal
Deicent with Ohris and SesoRris, with Bacchus and Hercules,
the former Conquerors of the EaR. The Opinion of my
Divinity aRilted my Arms, and lubdued all Nations before
me, Rom the Granicus to the Ganges. But, though I called
mylelf Ac/; and kept up the Veneration that
nameinlpired, by a Courage which seemed more than hu-
man, and by the sublime Magnanimity of all my Behaviour,
I did not forget that I was Adwp/T/RRp. I used the Po-
licy of my Father, and the wile Lessons of AriRotle, whom
he had made my Preceptor, in the conduct of all my great
Dehgns. It was Ap?; pf T&7/p who planted Greek Colo-
nies in Aha, as far as the Indies; who formed Projects ofTrade
more extensive than hisEmpire itself; who laid the founda-
tions of them in the midRofhisWars; who built Alexandria,
to be the Centre and Staple of Commerce between Europe,
Aha, and Africk; who sentNearchus to navigate the unknown
Indian Seas, and intended to have gone himself Rom thole
Seas to the Pillars ofHercules, that is, to have explored the
Pahage round Africk, theDilcovery of which has hnce been
so glorious to Valeo de Gama. It was Ac; p/* f A;7;p,
who, after subduing the Perhans, governed them with such
Lenity, Inch JuRice and Rich Wildom, that they loved him
even more than ever they had loved their natural Kings; and
who, by Intermarriages, and allMethodsthat could beR eRa^
blish a Coalition between the Conquerors and the Conquered,
united them into one People. But what, Sir, did you do,
to advance the Trade of your Subjects, to procure anyBenefht
to thole you had vanquiihed, or to convert any Enemy
into a Friend ?
C3
CHAR-
4i
CHARLES..
I will not dilute your Superiority as a General. It is not
sor me, a mere Mortal, to contend with Ac;
N?//WC7;,
ALEXANDER.
I Rippose you think my pretending that Jz/pRer was my
Father, as much entitles me to the name of a Madman, as your
extravagant behaviour at Bender does you. But you are
greatly miRakeu. It was not my Vanity, but my Policy,
which let up thatPretenhon. When I proposed to undertake
the conqueR of Aha, it was necehary forme to appear to the
People something more than a Man. They had been used
to the Idea of farcer. I therefore claimed an equal
Deicent with Ohris and SesoRris, with Bacchus and Hercules,
the former Conquerors of the EaR. The Opinion of my
Divinity aRilted my Arms, and lubdued all Nations before
me, Rom the Granicus to the Ganges. But, though I called
mylelf Ac/; and kept up the Veneration that
nameinlpired, by a Courage which seemed more than hu-
man, and by the sublime Magnanimity of all my Behaviour,
I did not forget that I was Adwp/T/RRp. I used the Po-
licy of my Father, and the wile Lessons of AriRotle, whom
he had made my Preceptor, in the conduct of all my great
Dehgns. It was Ap?; pf T&7/p who planted Greek Colo-
nies in Aha, as far as the Indies; who formed Projects ofTrade
more extensive than hisEmpire itself; who laid the founda-
tions of them in the midRofhisWars; who built Alexandria,
to be the Centre and Staple of Commerce between Europe,
Aha, and Africk; who sentNearchus to navigate the unknown
Indian Seas, and intended to have gone himself Rom thole
Seas to the Pillars ofHercules, that is, to have explored the
Pahage round Africk, theDilcovery of which has hnce been
so glorious to Valeo de Gama. It was Ac; p/* f A;7;p,
who, after subduing the Perhans, governed them with such
Lenity, Inch JuRice and Rich Wildom, that they loved him
even more than ever they had loved their natural Kings; and
who, by Intermarriages, and allMethodsthat could beR eRa^
blish a Coalition between the Conquerors and the Conquered,
united them into one People. But what, Sir, did you do,
to advance the Trade of your Subjects, to procure anyBenefht
to thole you had vanquiihed, or to convert any Enemy
into a Friend ?
C3
CHAR-