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Excerpt from Letters Written by a Turkish Spy, Who Lived Five-and-Forty Years Undiscovered at Paris, Vol. 2: 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 1642 to the Year 1682 One of thefe I here prefent you with, and the o ther will ere long be ready for the ptefs. I need not fay any thing of the original Arabic, or of the author, the place of his abode, and how his writings came to light; fuficient has been fpoken on that fubjeél: in the preface to the firft part. I fhall only add, that if his ltyle may icem in this part to vary fometimes from the firi't volume, it muft be attributed to the difference of the languages from whence they are tranllated, it being impoflible to obferve an equal idiom in following two ftieh dif ferent languages as French and Italian; the one dancing in foft meafures, delicate cadences, and fmooth periods; the other advancing in lofty (trains, keeping a Romanpace, full of mafculine and Jen tentious gravity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.