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 . pid progress inthe paths of knowledge ; and besides his native tongue it is affirmed that hespoke or understood five languages,—the Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Latin, andGreek. With geography and history he was well acquainted; and the livesof the heroes of the East, and perhaps of the West, excited his emulation. Hisskill in astrology i
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 . pid progress inthe paths of knowledge ; and besides his native tongue it is affirmed that hespoke or understood five languages,—the Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Latin, andGreek. With geography and history he was well acquainted; and the livesof the heroes of the East, and perhaps of the West, excited his emulation. Hisskill in astrology is excused by the folly of his time and people, and impliessome acquaintance with mathematical science ; while his taste for the arts isindicated by his liberal invitation and reward of the painters of Italy. His so-briety is attested by the silence of the Turkish historians, who accuse onlythree of their sultans of the vice of drunkenness ; and it is related that he cul-tivated his gardens with his own hands, and sold part of the produce to pur-chase the other articles required for his table. The portrait of Mohammed the opposite page, is from a drawing taken from life, by Gentile Bellini,an eminent painter of the fifteenth century. MOHAMMED IL 75. Mohammed II.—From a Drawing by Gentile Bellini. 76 CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.
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