Sethos: History or Life Taken from the Private Monuments of Ancient Egypt

[re-]ceive The word completes from the previous page's "re-". from him the attentions and considerations The original French "ménagemens" refers to careful, tactful treatment of others to avoid offense, especially in diplomacy. that maintain their tranquility. But the Princes with whom he negotiates would perhaps offer more resistance to his desires if an education, aided by a Work useful to all the Kings of the earth, had not brought them closer to the same inclinations found in the August and young Monarch Referring to Louis XV, who was known as "the Well-Beloved" and was in his early thirties at the time of much of this literature's height., in whose Kingdom Telemachus Original: Telemaque. This refers to The Adventures of Telemachus by Fénelon, a book that used Greek mythology to teach a prince how to be a peaceful and just ruler. was born. If one is well-received in maintaining that Letters Original: "Lettres." In the 18th century, this term referred to the broad world of literature, scholarship, and the humanities., being ever more cultivated, have introduced politeness and good taste into all the Courts and all the Cities of Europe; it must be permitted to attribute, at least in part, the love of peace that seems to reign today among all Peoples to Works of an excellent morality, adorned, moreover, with all the charms suited to make it appreciated. One can undoubtedly join them to the other causes of this spirit of equity and pacification of which one...