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S e c t. his Debts, and sits down punctually to three XI. Meals a Day ; and a wild Arab, who lives upon his Purchase, eats when he can, and fasts when he cannot eat. In other Setts of Manners there is the fame Variety : As between the thoughtful, effeminate, sedentary Chinese', and the roving, carele/s, hardy Tartar. It is some of the wan dering Tribes of the Nation last named that Homer characterizes, when he fays, ' thatalmigh' ty Jove, after viewing the Field of Battle of ' the Greeks and Trojans, looked toward the 4 North : p-'3»,00 His radiant Eyes he turrid OfWarriors wont to combat hand to band, Mysians, and Thracian Horje—* Astately Race, —Mare's Milk their Care and Food; Strangers to Wealth ; superlatively good. Thesame Country is thus described by the other Parent of Poetry : z'2- (') Milk-EatersLznd, whose Waggon is their House. 24i-^ ^ Hesiod. And thus by Eschylus, in the Person of Pro metheus Chained, giving Directions to the un fortunate To
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Hear then—From hence to yonder rising Sun Dire£l thy Course ; and tread the untiltd Lands Of Rh