Excerpt from Autobiography in the Early Eighteenth Century (1690-1750): Including the Self-Narratives of Colley Cibber, Coxcomb and Theatre Manager; Duke De Saint Simon, the Haughty Critic of Kings; Lewis Holberg, Founder of Danish Culture; Mohammed Ali Hazin, Persian Poet and Patriot; And Benjamin Franklin, Chief of American Hazin wandered from city to city through the East, and if he found much bloodshed, he found also much idle pleasure. Wherever a prince would honor him, there he journeyed. Hence he wrote and taught in many minor courts, until a new conqueror arose to subjugate the little Persian states. Hazin spoke for their independence, satirized their foe, and when the conquest was completed had to flee to India, where he wrote down the story of his life. You will find in it a wholly new field of reading, a knowledge and 'a life strangely foreign to our own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.