The Present State of Turkey; Or, A Description of the Political, Civil, and Religious Constitution, Government, and Laws, of the Ottoman Empire ;: The Fiances ... Together with the Geographical, Political, and Civil, State of the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. From Observations Made During a Residence of Fifteen Years ...

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J. Mawman, 1807 - 436 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 26 - Quand les sauvages de la Louisiane veulent avoir du fruit, ils coupent l'arbre au pied, et cueillent le fruit. Voilà le gouvernement despotique.
Σελίδα 341 - Guido or Titian, — and most of their skins shiningly white, only adorned by their beautiful hair divided into many tresses, hanging on their shoulders, braided either with pearl or ribbon, perfectly representing the figures of the Graces.
Σελίδα 321 - ... and entire to the widow. They are queens of their slaves, whom the husband has no permission so much as to look upon, except it be an old woman or two that his lady chooses.
Σελίδα 322 - Abyssinians ,66 whose victory would have introduced into the Caaba the religion of the Christians. In his early infancy, he was deprived of his father, his mother, and his grandfather; his uncles were strong and numerous; and, in the division of the inheritance, the orphan's share was reduced to five camels and an Ethiopian maidservant.
Σελίδα 338 - I retired through the same ceremonies as before, and could not help thinking I had been some time in Mahomet's paradise, so much was I charmed with what I had seen.
Σελίδα 263 - is full of mechanics and slaves, who are all of them profound theologians ; and preach in the shops, and in the streets. If you desire a man to change a piece of silver, he informs you wherein the Son differs from the Father; if you ask the price of a loaf, you are told, by way of reply, that the Son is inferior to the Father ; and if you inquire whether the bath is ready, the answer is, that the Son was made out of nothing.
Σελίδα 287 - ... depilation of the body from motives of cleanliness. In performing their devotions, or on entering a dwelling, they take off their shoes. In inviting a person to approach them, they use what with us is considered as a repulsive motion of the hand. In writing, they trace the lines from right to left. The master of a house does the honours / of his table by serving himself first from the dish: he drinks without noticing the company, and they wish him health when he has finished his draught. They...
Σελίδα 60 - ... of their former heroes, they would doubtless display energies of mind, which the iron hand of despotism has long kept dormant and inert. It is rather astonishing that they have retained so much energy of character, and are not more debased ; for like noble coursers, they champ the bit and spurn indignantly the yoke ; when once freed from this, they will enter the course of glory.
Σελίδα 233 - ... moved by a powerful stimulus they sometimes indulge in pleasures to excess. The moral character is fundamentally formed in infancy and childhood, not by precept, so much as by the absence of evil; for the Turks receive their early education under the care of their mothers and their female attendants, who are secluded from the promiscuous society of men, and removed from the contagion of corrupt example.
Σελίδα 359 - When she took off her veil, she displayed a bust of the most attractive beauty. She rubbed her cheeks with a wet napkin, to prove that she had not used art to heighten her complexion ; and she opened her inviting lips to show a regular set of teeth of pearly whiteness...

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