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beft and moft highly-gifted of them have 

 fought their way to fame beneath the ban- 

 ners of Freedom and Mercy, whofe eternal 

 nature no national or individual abufe, no 

 hypocritical affumption, can change. 



Thefe inftances of unchriftian barbarity 

 lead to the ftory of the cruel and impious 

 Cambyfeson his march tofubdue Ethiopia, 

 after having deftroyed the temples and de- 

 vafted the country of Thebes, and mafTa- 

 cred its inhabitants. The fate of that 

 army is defcribed which he fent to plunder 

 the temple of Jupiter, and which perifhed 

 in the defert overwhelmed by fand. The 

 Gnomes are confidered as minifters of that 

 juft vengeance, and of the famine by which 

 it was preceded ; and this, by withholding 

 the dews, and blafting vegetation, and by 

 fummoning the whirlwinds which caufe 

 the fatal rife of the fand-tornados. The 

 iucceffive horrors that overtook this army 

 are depided W 7 ith the higheft intereft and 

 Q grandeur, 



