'The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East Indies, through the Black Sea, and the country of Colchis. Containing the author's voyage from Paris to Ispahan. To which is added, the coronation of the present King of Persia, Solyman the III.' [‎51] (80/594)

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«p above an HunJerd Thoufand Crowns; or at • •
chcir power fo to do ; for the RepHbllh^ never caMs etti Z
Accompt And this they do for two Reafons i the fi d™ to
balance by their Gains the Trouble and Hardfltip 0 f Eti!
baflte to LonfiaHlinapk, vvhtch atife ftom the Danger andTdl
ofTtavathngi and from the ,11 Hnmont and Contempt of the
Twk,. And fecondly, to teconip e „ce thofe Fnmurs, who
have wafted their Eftaces m European Am baffles
l affirra ' ac Several times that I have
had the Honour to vtfit h.tn, That the r»r%l p„|i c „ did
ry much fntpafs that of rhe , Tha t it was not eon-
fin d within Maxims and Rules 5 but confifted altogether in
Senfe and Judgment, as being grounded altogether upon Rea-
Ion and never ading but according to Reafon. Which fort
of Policy having neither Art nor Principles, was as it were
unapproachable ; mfomuch that he ferioufly acknowledge
ThattheConduaofa ^r, was to him an Abyfs, of which
he could not Fadom the Judgment, the Forefight, the Per-
fpicacy, the Secrecy the Cunning, with all its Windings and
Labyrinths. He aflur d me That if had a Son, he would
lend him to no other School then to the Court; where
he could not too highly admire the who without fpeak-
ing, writing, or fo much as moving himfelf, Govern'd one of
the moft Potent Empires of the World, and had extended the
Limits 01 it in leveral places.
During my ftay at Adriample, I had the Honour feveral
times to converfe with this Venetian Ambaflador ; and becaufe
that then our moft general difcourfe was concerning rhe War
ot Landy, I learnt from him and feveral other Eminent Per-
lonages of the Court, divers Particulars worthy Obferva-
tion; of which I fliall here fet down the moft Memo-
rable.
One of the Principal Performances which the Law of Kt-
- ef en;oyns, is the Pil g r 'mage to Mecca and There
is nothing that can legally difpence with it but an extream Po-
^5!"^' further lays a ftriftln^undtion upon thole whom
either Sicknefs, or Imployment, or other Occafions will not
permit to go in Perfon, to make their Pilgrimage by Proxy;
1 lat ,s ' to fo thole Places of Devotion, a Perfon on pur-
pole, to perform all thofe Duties which he himfelf ought to
nave done, could he have gone thither himlelf.
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