i 9 o AN HISTORICAL DISQUISITION, &c.

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the combined exertions of such naval and militarypower , supported by commercial wealth , andunder the direction of a monarch whose compre-hensive genius was able to derive from each itspeculiar advantages, and to employ all with thegreatest effect. Happily for the human race, thedespotic system of Turkish government, foundedon such illiberal fanaticism as has extinguishedscience in Egypt, in Assyria, and in Greece, itsthree favorite mansions in ancient times , wasprevented from ^extending its dominion over Eu-rope, and from suppressing liberty, learning, andtaste, when beginning to make succesiful effortsto revive there, and again to bless, to enlighten,and to polish mankind.