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Re: 五名英中求押後結龍限期
見Philip 抄書抄得咁開心，我又抄一段：奥朗澤布致沙黑書。奥朗澤布是一國王，沙黑曾是他的老師，本函是奥朗澤布就沙黑向他求取報酬之回覆。
What is it you would have of me, Doctor? Can you reasonably desire that I should make you one of the chief omrahs of my court? Let me tell you, if you had instructed me as you should have done, nothing would be more just; for I am of this persuasion, that a child well educated and instructed is as much, at least, obliged to his master as to his father.
But where are those good documents you have given me? …
I have scared learned of you the name of my grandsires, the famous founders of the empire; so far were you from having taught me the history of their life, and what course they took to make such great conquest.
You had a mind to teach me the Arabian tongue, to read and to write. I am much obliged, forsooth, for having made me lose so much time upon language that requires ten or twelve years to attain to its perfection; as if the son of the king should think it to be an honor to him to be a grammarian or some doctor of the law, and to learn other language than of his neighbors when he can well be without them; he, to whom time is so precious for so many weighty things, which the ought by times to learn. As if there were any spirit that did not with some reluctancy, and even with a kind of debasement, employ itself in so sad and dry an exercise, so longsome and tedious as is that of learning words.
Know you not that childhood well governed, being a state which is ordinary accompanied with happy memory, is capable of thousands of good precepts and instructions, which remain deeply impressed the whole remainder of man’s life, and keep the mind always raised for great actions? The law, prayers and sciences, may they not as well be learned in mother tongue as in Arabick? You told my father Shah Jehan that you would teach me philosophy. ‘Tis true, I remember very well, that you have entertained me for many years with airy questions of things that afford no satisfaction at all to the mind and are of no use in human society, empty notions and mere fancies, that have only this in them, that they are very hard to understand and very easy to forget…
If you had seasoned me with the philosophy which formeth the mind to ratiocination, and insensibly accustoms it to be satisfied with nothing but solid reasons; if you had given me those excellent precepts and doctrines which raise the soul above the assaults of fortune, and reduce her to an unshakeable and always equal temper, and permit her not to be lifted up by prosperity nor debased by adversity; if you had taken care to give me the knowledge of what we are and what are the first principles of things, and had assisted me in forming in my mind a fit idea of greatness of the universe, and of the admirable order and motion of the parts thereof; if, I say, you had instilled into me this kind of philosophy, I should think myself incomparably more obliged to you than Alexander was to his Aristotle, and believe it may duty to recompense you otherwise than he did him…
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