The Spectator (Volume 14) - Softcover

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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1810. Excerpt: ... A letter from the emperor of China to the Pope, interpreted by a father Jesuit, secretary of the Indies. To you blessed above the blessed, great emfieror of bishofis and fiastor of Christians, disfienser of the oil of the kings of Eurofie, Clement XI. ' The favourite friend of God, Gionettathe Vllth, the most powerful above the most powerful of the earth, highest above the highest under the sun and moon, who sits on a throne of emerald of China, above 100 steps of gold, to interpret the language of God to the faithful, and who gives life and death to 115 kingdoms, and 170 islands; he writes with the quill of a virgin ostrich, and sends health and increase of old age. ' Being arrived at the time of our age, in which the flower of our royal youth ought to ripen into fruit towards old age, to comfort therewith the desire of our devoted people, and to propagate the seed of that plant which must protect them ; we have determined to accompany ourselves with an high amorous virgin, suckled at the breast of a wild lioness, and a meek lamb; and, imagining with ourselves that your European Roman people is the father of unconquerable and chaste ladies, we stretch out our powerful arm to embrace one of them, and she shall be one of your nieces, or the niece of some other great Latin priest, the darling of God's right eye. Let the authority of Sarah be sown in her, the fidelity of Esther, and the wisdom of Abba. We would have her eye like that of a dove, which may look upon heaven and earth, with the mouth of a shell-fish to feed upon the dew of the morning, her age must not exceed 200 courses of the moon ; let her stature Vol. ix. o be equal to that of an ear of green corn, and her girth a handful. ' We will send our mandarines embassadors to clothe her, and to conduct her to us, and we will m...