Letters Written by a Turkish Spy, Who Lived Five-and-Forty Years Undiscovered at Paris, Vol. 7

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Excerpt from Letters Written by a Turkish Spy, Who Lived Five-and-Forty Years Undiscovered at Paris, Vol. 7: Giving an Impartial Account to the Divan at Constantinople of the Most Remarkable Transactions of Europe, and Discovering Several Intrigues and Secrets of the Christian Courts, (Especially of That of France) Continued From the Year 1667 to the Year 1682But all this is tri¿ing, and our Engliih tran¿ator is under none of thefe circumlianees. To come to the purpofe, ther'éfore, gentlemen, you will oom mend our tran¿ator's wifdom for not being in inch poltehafie at this junéiure, when you refieéi, that like a wife racer, though he gave a (fart in the beginning at firi't fetting out, yet he foon ¿ackened his pace, that he might make fure of the goal, remembering the old Englilh proverb, The more halts the wor'l'e fpeed. Thus he full'ered three years to flide by him before he reached the fccond Rage (ad vol.) and though he began to take up his heels more nim bly afterwards, (0 as to recover by degrees his lofi time and ground, yet {hill he did but moderately jog on, now fpringing, then haltinggas oceafion o¿'ehed, and'a's he found his firéngth' could hold at length, having but two f'tages more, wonder not that he' is a little more tedious than ordinary in this, for her does it to refrelh himl'elf, and keep his breath for the lait (train of all, which brings the prize, obfee ing herein the old adage, Finis coronat opus.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.