The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke

field of blood they hazarded their lives. And I withheld not from them my gold nor my
silver. And I educated and trained them to arms; and to alleviate their sufferings, I myself
shared in their labors and in their hardships, until with the arm of fortitude and resolution,
and with the unanimity of my chiefs and my generals and my warriors, by the edge of the
sword, I obtained possession of the thrones of seven-and-twenty kings, and became the king
and the ruler of the kingdoms of Eraun, and of Tooraun, and of Room, and of Mughrib, and
of Shaum, and of Missur, and of Erauk-a-Arrub, and of Ajjum, and of Mauzinduraun, and
of Kylaunaut, and of Shurvaunaut, and of Azzurbauejaun, and of Fauris, and of
Khorausaun, and of the Dusht of Jitteh, and the Dusht of Kipchauk, and of Khauruzm, and
Khuttun, and of Kauboolistaun, and of Hindostaun, and of Bauktur Zemeen.

"And when I clothed myself in the robe of empire, I shut my eyes to safety, and to the
repose which is found on the bed of ease. And from the twelfth year of my age I travelled
over countries, and combated difficulties, and formed enterprises, and vanquished armies,
and experienced mutinies amongst my officers and my soldiers, and was familiarized to the
language of disobedience; and I opposed them with policy and with fortitude, and I
hazarded my person in the hour of danger; until in the end I vanquished kingdoms and
empires, and established the glory of my name.

"Sixthly. By justice and equity I gained the affections of the people of God; and I extended
my clemency to the guilty as well as to the innocent; and I passed that sentence which truth
required; and by benevolence I gained a place in the hearts of men; and by rewards and
punishments I kept both my troops and my subjects divided between hope and fear. And I
compassionated the lower ranks of my people, and those who were distressed. And I gave
gifts to the soldiers.

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