[Footnote 79: The writer who has the most abused this
fabulous generosity, is our ingenious Sir William Temple,
(his Works, vol. iii. p. 349, 350, octavo edition,) that
lover of exotic virtue. After the conquest of Russia, &c.,
and the passage of the Danube, his Tartar hero relieves,
visits, admires, and refuses the city of Constantine. His
flattering pencil deviates in every line from the truth of
history; yet his pleasing fictions are more excusable than
the gross errors of Cantemir.]