Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, &c: And of a Cruise in the Black Sea, with the Capitan Pasha, in the Years 1829, 1830, and 1831, Volume 1E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1833 - Eastern question (Balkan) |
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admiral Adrianople ambassador amused Armenians arms arrived Balkans bashi Black Sea Bosphorus Bourgas Buyukderé caique capitan pasha captain castle cause cavalry chibouque Christian command considered Constantinople Cossacks crew Danube deck delhis dere beys Diebitsch divan dragoman effendi emperor empire enemy English Europe Euxine eyes favour fire fleet followed Frank French frigate gave grand vizir Greece Greeks guns head hills honour horses hundred infidels inhabitants Janizzaries Keuy Khosrew kiosk knew lady latter Mahmoud Mehemet Mehemet Ali miles mollah Morea morning mosques Mussulmans nation never night noble officers Osmanleys Ottoman palace passed peace Pera person Porte Pravodi Redschid Reidiger rendered retreat Roumelia Russian army sail Schumla Selim Selim III Selimnia sent seraglio seraskier Sevastopol ship shore showed Silistria Sizepolis sultan supposed talents thousand tion took troops Turkey Turkish Turks twenty ulema Varna vessels Wallachia wind
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Page 178 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 135 - When a nation, comparatively barbarous, copies the finished experience of a highly civilized state, without going through the intermediate stages of advancement, the few are strengthened against the many, the powerful armed against the weak. The sovereign, who before found his power (despotic in name) circumscribed, because with all the will, he had not the real art of oppressing, by the aid of science finds himself a giant — his mace exchanged for a sword. In scanning over the riches of civilization,...
Page 110 - II. intrusted the governmS men! of the provinces to the dere beys, and strengthened the authority of the ayans, he would have truly reformed his empire, by restoring it to its brightest state, have gained the love of his subjects, and the applauses of humanity. By the contrary proceeding, subverting two bulwarks (though dilapidated) of national prosperity — a provincial nobility and magistracy — he has shown himself a selfish tyrant.
Page iii - THE Turkish empire is as interesting now, that it is crumbling to pieces, as it was in the 16th century, when a Tartar could ride with the sultan's firman, respected all the way, from the banks of the Volga to the confines of Morocco — when its armies threatened Vienna, and its fleets ravaged the coasts of Italy. It then excited the fears of civilized Europe ; it now excites its cupidity.
Page iv - ... in its best light the reform which was opposed to the wishes of the majority of the nation, and forced on it, was, far from being liberal, an act of pure despotism, only to be excused by the amount of absolute good to be obtained from it, overbalancing the evils to be apprehended ; both calculated beforehand.
Page 219 - VOL. i. 20 savage who performed the deed cleaned his blade on the corpse's clothes, then held it up in the rays of the sun ; but seeing some stains on it, again wiped it before re-sheathing it. How willingly, to judge by my own feelings, and the looks of the bystanders, would we have torn the wretch in pieces ! He disposed the body secundum artem, an assistant washed away the blood, the crowd silently dispersed, and Hassan was left where he fell to glut the gaze of bipeds and quadrupeds twenty-four...
Page 137 - Hitherto the Osmanley has enjoyed by custom some of the dearest privileges of freemen, for which Christian nations have so long struggled. He paid nothing to the government beyond a moderate land-tax, although liable, it is true, to extortions, which might be classed with assessed taxes. He paid no tithes, the vacouf sufficing for the maintenance of the ministers of Islamism.
Page 202 - ... to lose more men, suddenly displayed his whole force, and opened a tremendous fire on the astonished Turks. In an instant the rout was general, horse and foot ; the latter threw away their arms, and many of the nizam dgeditt were seen clinging to the tails of the delhis' horses as they clambered over the hills.