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Tale Of A Numidian Chief.
nions ; in flocks , whose fine fleeces furnished our onty clothes , and whose delicious milk was our only food . Content with these gifts of heaven , we despised gold and silver , with which our mountains abounded , if our hands , covetous as those of Europe , had prompted us meanly to sink mines . But the verdant pastures , fields of barley and of rice , to us seemed preferable to that dangerous metal , source ofthe miseries ofthe world and which you yourselves , it is
, said , doubtless , aware ofthe crimes which they tempt you to perpetrate , take only from the earth by the hands of criminals . Peace , friendship , and harmoii }' , reigned in the bosom of each family . Faithful to the relig ion which our ancestors transmitted to us , we adore but one God , and we reverence his prophet . Without ing our weak capacities with commenting on thatdivine
weary ^ book , without asserting that guilty pride of explaining his holy maxims , we are certain of following them , when we execute the duties of a man , in practising those mild duties which nature engraved upon our hearts , before they were written in the sublime Koran . We are of opinion that one good action is better than many prayers ; that justice and charity are more sacred than the Rhamadan ; and
obliged in our desarts of sand to forego certain ablutions , we endeavour to compensate for them by charity , benevolence , and above all , by hospitality . Faithful , during forty centuries , to that duty so pleasing to our hearts , we revere it as the first , and we cherish it as the most amiable . Every stranger , although an enemy , who touches the threshold of our tents , becomes to us a sacred object .
His life , his goods , his security , becomes to us a sacred deposit , confided by the Almighty ; every day we implore him to grant us this honour , for which the chief of our family contend . Never does one of these take his meal within his tent ; his table is always at the entrance ; seats are already prepared ; nor does the master take his seat till he has three times exclaimed , In the name of God , the Father of man , if there be here a traveller , a poor man , or an unfortunate person , let him come and partake of my fare , and relate to me his sorrows .
On Affectation.
ON AFFECTATION .
N OTHING conduces more to render a person agreeable , than easy and graceful manners . That our manners may be graceful , they must be natural ; for actions , that are forced , are stiff and aukward , and therefore disgustful . The use of education , is not to transform but to polish nature , and to eradicate accidental ill habits . The same gestures in behaviour , and the same tone o € voice in speaking , that mig ht be agreeable . enough in one person , TT 11
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Tale Of A Numidian Chief.
nions ; in flocks , whose fine fleeces furnished our onty clothes , and whose delicious milk was our only food . Content with these gifts of heaven , we despised gold and silver , with which our mountains abounded , if our hands , covetous as those of Europe , had prompted us meanly to sink mines . But the verdant pastures , fields of barley and of rice , to us seemed preferable to that dangerous metal , source ofthe miseries ofthe world and which you yourselves , it is
, said , doubtless , aware ofthe crimes which they tempt you to perpetrate , take only from the earth by the hands of criminals . Peace , friendship , and harmoii }' , reigned in the bosom of each family . Faithful to the relig ion which our ancestors transmitted to us , we adore but one God , and we reverence his prophet . Without ing our weak capacities with commenting on thatdivine
weary ^ book , without asserting that guilty pride of explaining his holy maxims , we are certain of following them , when we execute the duties of a man , in practising those mild duties which nature engraved upon our hearts , before they were written in the sublime Koran . We are of opinion that one good action is better than many prayers ; that justice and charity are more sacred than the Rhamadan ; and
obliged in our desarts of sand to forego certain ablutions , we endeavour to compensate for them by charity , benevolence , and above all , by hospitality . Faithful , during forty centuries , to that duty so pleasing to our hearts , we revere it as the first , and we cherish it as the most amiable . Every stranger , although an enemy , who touches the threshold of our tents , becomes to us a sacred object .
His life , his goods , his security , becomes to us a sacred deposit , confided by the Almighty ; every day we implore him to grant us this honour , for which the chief of our family contend . Never does one of these take his meal within his tent ; his table is always at the entrance ; seats are already prepared ; nor does the master take his seat till he has three times exclaimed , In the name of God , the Father of man , if there be here a traveller , a poor man , or an unfortunate person , let him come and partake of my fare , and relate to me his sorrows .
On Affectation.
ON AFFECTATION .
N OTHING conduces more to render a person agreeable , than easy and graceful manners . That our manners may be graceful , they must be natural ; for actions , that are forced , are stiff and aukward , and therefore disgustful . The use of education , is not to transform but to polish nature , and to eradicate accidental ill habits . The same gestures in behaviour , and the same tone o € voice in speaking , that mig ht be agreeable . enough in one person , TT 11