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 . d his nazzir. Nadir finally quitted Delhi, on the 14th of April, after having given somegood advice to the emperor, and obliged him to cede the provinces betweenPersia and Hmdostan. Nadir returned to Persia, where he retained his posilion on the throne till he fell by assassination, in 1747, in the sixtieth year ofhis age. It is, perh
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 . d his nazzir. Nadir finally quitted Delhi, on the 14th of April, after having given somegood advice to the emperor, and obliged him to cede the provinces betweenPersia and Hmdostan. Nadir returned to Persia, where he retained his posilion on the throne till he fell by assassination, in 1747, in the sixtieth year ofhis age. It is, perhaps, not unworthy of remark, that as of the two inost fearful inroad*Hindustan has known, of Timur preceded and prepared the countryfor the rise of the Moajul power, and the other, under Nadir Shah, followedits decline and accelerated its full, so the motives of each were the same, plun-der ; both were successful from the same cause, the disorganized state of thecountry under its weak and worthless rulers ; and lastly, the results of eachwere in the highest degree important, the * being the establishment of Baberand his successors; while the last opened the way for the most momentous,event of Indian history—the British rule. JOHN WESLEY. 249. JOHN WESLEY. JOHN WESLEY, the celebrated founder of methodism, was the second son ofRev. Samuel Wesley, rector of Epworth, in Lincolnshire, England, where hewas born, Juue 17, 1703. Although his father was a man of considerable lit-erary attainments, being known to the public as the author of various works inverse, it was to his mother, a woman of a much more zealous and active char-acter than her husband, that Wesley was chiefly indebted for his early educa-tion, and probably also for the seeds of many of his distinguished mental habits. After receiving a very systematic elementary tuition from his mother, JohnWesley was sent to the Charterhouse, whence he removed at the usual time toChnst-church college, Oxford. Here he dis
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