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ful and honest, and the divine avenger of trea-
chery and ingratitude.
But the practice of the most generous virtues
shone no where more than in the haruvis of these
Mamelucs. Examples of magnanimity and the
most affectionate attachment were daily displayed
in these assemhlages of women equally strangers
to Egypt, hut into whose minds Nature had not
admitted the slightest tint of the harsh and un-
tractable dispositions of the men of the same
countries, while she embellished them with senti-
ments the most ardent, yet most gentle, forming
a delightful unison with their personal charms.
These beautiful captives, exposed to various in-
sults and acts of injustice, and having many a
bitter draught to swallow, forgot all the moment
their husbands or patrons fell into adversity.
They not only sent them, in their flight or exile,
all the money they possessed, but voluntarily
parted with the ornaments they wore to the very
last article, in order to procure supplies for them.
Women so generous toward a race of men in-
capable of returning such nobleness of sentiment,
or of forming a happy union with the tender dis-
positions of their hearts, were respected amid the
vicissitudes of continual intestine wars. The asy-
lum which enclosed so many charms, and too
vol. 11. t 8 many
ful and honest, and the divine avenger of trea-
chery and ingratitude.
But the practice of the most generous virtues
shone no where more than in the haruvis of these
Mamelucs. Examples of magnanimity and the
most affectionate attachment were daily displayed
in these assemhlages of women equally strangers
to Egypt, hut into whose minds Nature had not
admitted the slightest tint of the harsh and un-
tractable dispositions of the men of the same
countries, while she embellished them with senti-
ments the most ardent, yet most gentle, forming
a delightful unison with their personal charms.
These beautiful captives, exposed to various in-
sults and acts of injustice, and having many a
bitter draught to swallow, forgot all the moment
their husbands or patrons fell into adversity.
They not only sent them, in their flight or exile,
all the money they possessed, but voluntarily
parted with the ornaments they wore to the very
last article, in order to procure supplies for them.
Women so generous toward a race of men in-
capable of returning such nobleness of sentiment,
or of forming a happy union with the tender dis-
positions of their hearts, were respected amid the
vicissitudes of continual intestine wars. The asy-
lum which enclosed so many charms, and too
vol. 11. t 8 many