Note 069
Besides the bloody passages of this narrative,
I must refer to an anticipation in the third volume of the
Decline and Fall, which in a single note (p. 234, note 25)
accumulates nearly 300,000 heads of the monuments of his
cruelty. Except in Rowe's play on the fifth of November, I
did not expect to hear of Timour's amiable moderation
(White's preface, p. 7.) Yet I can excuse a generous
enthusiasm in the reader, and still more in the editor, of
the Institutions.
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 65