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GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE 361 νπαιθρίαις δεσμοισι πασσάλεντός ων י εα en τ γ αχώ τίϊ 0'8 1a προσίπτα μ άφεγγηι βεόσντο η βρόταοί η κεκραμενη ικετο τερμόνιον επι πα-yov πόνων έμών θεωρό η τί δη θελων οράτε δεσμωτην μ δνσποτμον θεόν τον Διό εχθρόν τον πασι θεοί δι άπεχθύα ε θον& όπόσοι την Διός ανΧήν εισοιχνενσιν δια τήν λίαν φϊΚότητα βροτων φευ φεν τί ποτ αυ κινάθισμα κλνω πε α οιωνών αιβηρ δ' εΚαφραι πτερύγων ριπαΐ ύποσυρίζει πάν μοι φοβερον το προσέμπον III -CransSlatc into 4attn $roSe Charles then rose from his seat and from paper which he held in his hand he recounted all that he had done in his long reign He said that from the seventeenth year of his age he had devoted himself to public objects reserving no time for the indulgence of his ease and very little for pleasure that in war or peace he had traversed Europe many times and had made eleven voyages by sea that while his health remained he had never shunned labour nor repined under fatigue that now when his health was broken his growing infirmities obliged him to retire nor was he so fond of reigning as to retain the sceptre in an impotent hand which was no longer able to protect his subjects or to secure to them the happiness which he wished they should enjoy that instead of sovereign worn out with diseases and scarcely half alive he gave them one in the prime of life accustomed already to govern and who added to the vigour of youth all the attention and sagacity of maturer years that if during the course of long administration he had committed any material error in government or if under the pressure of so many and great affairs he had either neglected or injured any