Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . f Aurengzebes administrationof the domestic affairs of the empire, it is impossible to speak too highly; itwas liberal, enlightened, and just. One fact alone speaks volumes in its favor;a great famine desolated India in the third year of his reign, and produced themost appalling sufferings among the people. The emperor immediately rem
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . f Aurengzebes administrationof the domestic affairs of the empire, it is impossible to speak too highly; itwas liberal, enlightened, and just. One fact alone speaks volumes in its favor;a great famine desolated India in the third year of his reign, and produced themost appalling sufferings among the people. The emperor immediately remit-ted the rents of the land and other taxes ; he bought corn where it was mostplentiful, and sold it at reduced prices where it was the least so, furnishing themeans for so doing from his own treasury, which had grown rich under hiseconomical and able management, and which he opened for the benefit of thepeople without limit. It is indeed a most extraordinary, but at the same time aconsoling and gratifying fact, that men like Shah Jehan and Aurengzebe, stainedwith execrable crimes committed in the pursuit of power, should, when theirobjects were obtained, be so justly famous for the vigor, skill, and impartiality,of their administration. 206 JOHN JOHN BUNYAN. JOHN BUNYAN, author of Pilgrims Progress/ was born in 1628 at Elstow,near Bedford, England. His father was a tinker (which occupation Johnfor a time followed), and he gave his son an education merely such as his cir-cumstances could afford. His religious education was entirely neglected, andas he was associated with the lowest of the people, in an age of rude manners,brutalizing- customs, and gross popular ignorance, he grew up extremely prof-ligate, and was particularly addicted to speaking rashly and unadvisedlywith his lips. As he advanced in years his habits yielded to the religiousenthusiasm of the age, of which Cromwell was the leader, and he was presentat the siege of Leicester in 1645, where he escaped de
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