a private and public alliance. The French writers (Isaac
Casaubon in Dedicat. Polybii) are highly delighted with these
compliments.]

[Footnote 62: Constantine Porphyrogenitus (de Administrat. Imp. c.
36) exhibits a pedigree and life of the illustrious King Hugo. A more
correct idea may be formed from the Criticism of Pagi, the Annals of
Muratori, and the Abridgment of St. Marc, A.D. 925-946.]

[Footnote 63: After the mention of the three goddesses, Luitprand very
naturally adds, et quoniam non rex solus iis abutebatur, earum nati
ex incertis patribus originera ducunt, (Hist. l. iv. c. 6: ) for
the marriage of the younger Bertha, see Hist. l. v. c. 5; for the
incontinence of the elder, dulcis exercipio Hymenaei, l. ii. c. 15; for
the virtues and vices of Hugo, l. iii. c. 5. Yet it must not be forgot,
that the bishop of Cremona was a lover of scandal.]

[Footnote 64: Licet illa Imperatrix Graeca sibi et aliis fuisset satis
utilis, et optima, &c., is the preamble of an inimical writer, apud
Pagi, tom. iv. A.D. 989, No. 3. Her marriage and principal actions may
be found in Muratori, Pagi, and St. Marc, under the proper years.]

[Footnote 65: Cedrenus, tom. ii. p. 699. Zonaras, tom. i. p. 221.
Elmacin, Hist. Saracenica, l. iii. c. 6. Nestor apud Levesque, tom. ii.
p. 112 Pagi, Critica, A.D. 987, No. 6: a singular concourse! Wolodomir
and Anne are ranked among the saints of the Russian church. Yet we know
his vices, and are ignorant of her virtues.]

[Footnote 66: Henricus primus duxit uxorem Scythicam, Russam, filiam
regis Jeroslai. An embassy of bishops was sent into Russia, and the
father gratanter filiam cum multis donis misit. This event happened in
the year 1051. See the passages of the original chronicles in Bouquet's
Historians of France, (tom. xi. p. 29, 159, 161, 319, 384, 481.)
Voltaire might wonder at this alliance; but he should not have owned
his ignorance of the country, religion, &c., of Jeroslaus--a name so
conspicuous in the Russian annals.]

In the Byzantine palace, the emperor was the first slave of the
ceremonies which he imposed, of the rigid forms which regulated each
word and gesture, besieged him in the palace, and violated the leisure
of his rural solitude. But the lives and fortunes of millions hung on
his arbitrary will; and the firmest minds, superior to the allurements
of pomp and luxury, may be seduced by the more active pleasure of
commanding their equals. The legislative and executive