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Title: Almoran and Hamet

Author: John Hawkesworth

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Language: English

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ALMORAN AND HAMET

An Oriental Tale in Two Volumes

by

JOHN HAWKESWORTH

MDCCLXI

VOLUME FIRST

TO THE KING

SIR,

Amidst the congratulations and praises of a free, a joyful, and now
united people, people, who are ambitious to express their duty and
their wishes in their various classes; I think myself happy to have YOUR
MAJESTY'S most gracious permission to approach You, and, after the
manner of the people whose character I have assumed, to bring an humble
offering in my hand.

As some part of my subject led me to consider the advantages of our
excellent constitution in comparison of others; my thoughts were
naturally turned to YOUR MAJESTY, as its warmest friend and most
powerful protector: and as the whole is intended, to recommend the
practice of virtue, as the means of happiness; to whom could I address
it with so much propriety, as to a PRINCE, who illustrates and enforces
the precepts of the moralist by his life.

I am,
May it please Your MAJESTY,
Your MAJESTY'S
Most faithful, most obliged,
And most obedient
Subject and Servant,

John Hawkesworth.

CHAP. I.

Who is he among the children of the earth, that repines at the power of
the wicked? and who is he, that would change the lot of the righteous?
He, who has appointed to each his portion, is God; the Omniscient and
the Almighty, who fills eternity, and whose existence is from Himself!
but he who murmurs, is man; who yesterday was not, and who to-morrow
shall be forgotten: let him listen in silence to the voice of knowlege,
and hide the blushes of confusion in the dust.

Solyman, the mighty and the wife, who, in the one hundred and second
year of the Hegyra, sat upon the throne of Persia, had two sons, ALMOR