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

The Travels of Cyrus Original: Voyages de Cyrus. This was a popular philosophical novel by Andrew Michael Ramsay, published in 1727, which followed the model of Fénelon's Telemachus by using a fictionalized historical journey to impart political and moral wisdom. are, in accordance with their title, nothing more than a journey undertaken by the Hero to gather instructions from all the Sages of his time; and to bring back to his States what was good & advantageous in the different Laws of celebrated Kingdoms or Republics.

The Work concerned here is of the same genre as both of them regarding its moral purpose; but it differs from them in form even more than they differ from each other. Both are properly an Education: & although Cyrus emerges from it less young than Telemachus; the two Heroes have as yet only gathered the instructions that they were to put into use; or have only made attempts at what they were to practice; the former in the conduct of a small Kingdom, and the latter in the government of a great Empire. My Author, on the contra- The word "contrai-" is a catchword for "contraire" (contrary), which would begin the next page.