WHEEL OF FORTUNE.

"T'he whirligig Of time brings in its revenge"
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"The whirligig of time brings in its revenge"


CRABBR.


When the tributary kings Of Sesostris came
at stated periods to do him homage. he was
in the habit of displaying the most ridcu-
lous insolence. When he entered his capi-
tai, or went to the temple, he Embarrassed
his horses, and yoking these princes four a
breast to his car, highly valued himself on
being thus drawn along by the sovereigns of
kingdoms. The following incident is said to
have restored his majesty to a sense Of JUS
tice and humanity. On one of these occa-
sions, king who was degraded in the man
ner now mentioned, was observed to look
with peculiar earnestness at one of the
wheels of the chariot; and being asked what
it was that rivetted his attention, he repli-
ed significantly, 80 king the turning round
of the chariot wheel reminds me of the vi
cissitudes Of fortune; for as every part of
the wheel is uppermost and lowcrmost al
ternately, 80 it is with men who sit on a
throne to-day, and the next perhaps reduc-
ed to the vilest degree of slavery"