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vi translator's preface.
ambition of (he Kings of France bas more than
once threatened the liberties of Europe; but the
little finger of a modern Citizen of that country
is thicker than the loins of kings. They must
have a city and a lower, whose top may reach unto
heaven : France must be aggrandized, and Paris
embellished, at whatever rate.
The publication of M. Sonnini's Travels throws
considerable light on Buonaparte's expedition.
Louis XVI. employed the former of these gentle-
men to travel through Egypt, merely in the view
of physical and commercial arrangements ; the
Directory send thither the hero of Italy, with a
vast army, to make a conquest of the country.
Flow it has sped the world by this time knows.
Cassar's laconic boast is now curtailed of its third
limb. The Republican General can go no far-
ther than the veni, vidi: but the vici lies buried
without the walls of Saint-Jean d'Acre. Our au-
thor is a very good observer of what is, but he
knows nothing of what will be; he is an excel-
_
lent naturalist, but a most wretched prophet: he
has mistaken the fond dreams of a patriotic ima-
gination
ambition of (he Kings of France bas more than
once threatened the liberties of Europe; but the
little finger of a modern Citizen of that country
is thicker than the loins of kings. They must
have a city and a lower, whose top may reach unto
heaven : France must be aggrandized, and Paris
embellished, at whatever rate.
The publication of M. Sonnini's Travels throws
considerable light on Buonaparte's expedition.
Louis XVI. employed the former of these gentle-
men to travel through Egypt, merely in the view
of physical and commercial arrangements ; the
Directory send thither the hero of Italy, with a
vast army, to make a conquest of the country.
Flow it has sped the world by this time knows.
Cassar's laconic boast is now curtailed of its third
limb. The Republican General can go no far-
ther than the veni, vidi: but the vici lies buried
without the walls of Saint-Jean d'Acre. Our au-
thor is a very good observer of what is, but he
knows nothing of what will be; he is an excel-
_
lent naturalist, but a most wretched prophet: he
has mistaken the fond dreams of a patriotic ima-
gination