CONSTANTINOPLE. 71 
to England'. We sent to liim, from JParis, chap. 
the original edition of the French Encydopedie; 
and no contemptible idea may be formed of the 
taste of men, who, situate as the Greek families 
are in Constantinople, earnestly endeavour, by 
such publications, to multiply their sources of 
information. Some of the Greek manuscripts 
which is, jrsjJ Ka(nr.ovrco)). This work was printed at Bucharest, in 
1719: it contains nineteen chapters, and embraces a variety of moral 
and religious topics, relating-, as its title imports, to the ' Duties of 
Man.' The following paragraph is taken at random from the work, 
as a specimen of the language : 
aX\ ivif^v^o; tirriv al^^tui xcei lis (pZs aura v^eayayuv' xai tou; xav ihfuui 
*/t?> ■'"^^ i%uhv fiivmi yi a^ila; aftei^wa;, 5 oXa; Iffrti^wrai ^po; Ivi^ynav 
<rZv xaXuv, « xa& lavTov c^yuv y.ou ff^aSa^aiv, uxoXatfraUii, f/.n ctailaywyov- 
fiivoi, fi'/in rwrovfjiivos ti; x^lffiv xa) a'l^ifiv a^irris. 
' Nam et terra, cum non rigatur, continet quldem sinu siio, iit ita 
dicnm, semina,sed adea vegetanda, et in luceni edcnda, itivalida est; et 
mens quamvis habilis, si destituatur irrigatione, aut plane stenlescit ad 
bonos actus, aut per se turgens et lasciviens prolene agit, dum noti insti- 
tuitur etformatur ad discerncndam et eligendam virtutem.' 
" The library of Nicolas Mavrocordato was stored with manuscripts 
procured from the different monasteries in Greece, and the islands of 
the Archipelago ; and so valuable was it in every respect, that Sevin, 
who had been sent, by the Government of France, to collect manu- 
scripts in the Levant, in a Letter from Constantinople to Maurepas, 
dated Dec. 22, 1728, thus expresses himself: * La bibliotheque du 
Prince du Valacbie peut aller de pair avec cellcs des plus grands 
princes ; et depuis deux ans il a employ^ deux cents mille ecus en achats 
des manuscrits Turcs, Arabes, et Persans.' " Wiilpole's MS. Journal. 
(l) It was through his means that the author procured for Mr. 
Cripps, at the particular instigation of the late Professor Parson, the 
superb copy of the Orators, now in the possession of Dr, liumey. 
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