DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.11636#0011
translator'S preface.
One of the first books of History put into our
hands, contains many curious and interesting par-
ticulars respecting ancient Egypt. The recollec-
tion of these carries us with a warmer impulse to
contemplate the present state of things in that
country. The French nation, each individual
an Alexander, aims at nothing less than the con-
quest of the globe. After having over-run a great
part of Europe, they turned their eyes eastward to
Asia, and, without the veni, it was vidi, vici, and
the islands of the Egean Sea furnished another
department to the Republic. It was but a step
thence to Africa, to greet the Mameluc of Egypt
with the fraternal embrace, and add twenty more
to the departments of the Great Nation. The
a 3 ambition
One of the first books of History put into our
hands, contains many curious and interesting par-
ticulars respecting ancient Egypt. The recollec-
tion of these carries us with a warmer impulse to
contemplate the present state of things in that
country. The French nation, each individual
an Alexander, aims at nothing less than the con-
quest of the globe. After having over-run a great
part of Europe, they turned their eyes eastward to
Asia, and, without the veni, it was vidi, vici, and
the islands of the Egean Sea furnished another
department to the Republic. It was but a step
thence to Africa, to greet the Mameluc of Egypt
with the fraternal embrace, and add twenty more
to the departments of the Great Nation. The
a 3 ambition