[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Mughals (1526–1857)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal) › [Later Mughals (1707–1857)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.later) › [Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirīn](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.later.siyar-al-mutaakhkhirin) › [A Translation of the Seir Mutaqherin (Haji Mustafa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.later.siyar-al-mutaakhkhirin~en-mustafa) › 42.29.3 # Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 42.29.3 A Translation of the Seir Mutaqherin (Haji Mustafa) 42.29.3 - **Language:** English ### [42.29.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.later.siyar-al-mutaakhkhirin~en-mustafa.42.29.3) But is it not mortifying enough that so much beauty of style should be required of an accidental writer, who at most is but a semi-Englishman, and who unquestionably had views of his own, quite foreign to the vanity of turning author ? Is it not exceedingly hard that so much exactness should be required of a man under such a singular predicament, at a time that England, England as it is, cannot boast of a single tolerable historian earlier, than the times that have produced the Humes, the Littletons, the Robertsons, the Gibons, and the Juniuses, &c. ? Go through all the writers of Henry the Eighth's reign, and through all those of the times of Queen Elizabeth, and of James the first ; they are become obsolete, will you say. Indeed, they are so as to the words, and arrangement, and the rounding of the periods, but they are so also as to the style. Look throughout all that immensity of writings published in King Charles the First's reign by the Parliament and by its adversaries ; you shall find solid reasoning, but conveyed in coarse, homespun, indeed in clownish language ; and I cannot except one single writing from that censure, save the answers penned by King Charles himself, or by his Secretary, Lord Falkland. Throughout that witty reign of Charles the Second, I see good language enough in some authors, and flowing verses in Waller, but very harsh writings every elsewhere, and some solecismes and faults of grammar even in Acts of Parliament. - [Previous: 42.29.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.later.siyar-al-mutaakhkhirin~en-mustafa.42.29.2) - [Next: 42.29.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.later.siyar-al-mutaakhkhirin~en-mustafa.42.29.4) - [Up: 42.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.later.siyar-al-mutaakhkhirin~en-mustafa.42.29) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.later.siyar-al-mutaakhkhirin~en-mustafa.42.29.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.mughal.later.siyar-al-mutaakhkhirin~en-mustafa.42.29.3) · Pramāṇa