Turkey and the Turks: An Account of the Lands, the Peoples, and the Institutions of the Ottoman EmpireG. Bell, 1907 - 340 strani |
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Abdul Abdul-Aziz Abdul-Hamid Abdul-Hamid II Abdul-Mejid Ahmed III Albanians ancient Arabic Armenian Asia Minor Asiatic Ayasoluk Bagdad Bagtché baths Bayezid Bazaar beautiful Beylerbey Bosporus Bulgarians capital cent CHAPTER chief Christian church columns Constantine Constantinople court Crimean Crimean war dervishes dome England Ephesus eunuchs Europe European export Eyub faith of Islam feet fountain four Golden Horn Greek harem Hebrew hill hundred imperial island Janissaries Jews khans Koran Kurds Mecca menians ments minarets Mohammed Mohammedan Moslem mosque mosque of Sultan Murad Murad IV non-Moslem nople numerous Osmanli Turks Ottoman Empire palace Pasha Persian Phanar present sultan prince Prophet provinces quarter races Railway reign religion religious Robert College Roman Catholic Russia Saloniki says schools Scutari Seraglio Smyrna Sophia Stambul stantinople streets subjects Sublime Porte sultan Sultan Ahmed temple throne tion tombs trade treaty turbeh Turkey Turkish Turks Valideh walls white marble women Yildiz Kiosk
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Stran 77 - Each is bound to feel intensely the importance of his own duties and the significance of the situations that call these forth. But this feeling is in each of us a vital secret, for sympathy with which we vainly look to others. The others are too much absorbed in their own vital secrets to take an interest in ours. Hence the stupidity and injustice of our opinions, so far as they deal with the significance of alien lives. Hence the falsity of our judgments, so far as they presume to decide in an absolute...
Stran 76 - We are practical beings, each of us with limited functions and duties to perform. Each is bound to feel intensely the importance of his own duties and the significance of the situations that call these forth. But this feeling is in each of us a vital secret, for sympathy with which we vainly look to others. The others are too much absorbed in their own vital secrets to take an interest in ours.
Stran 78 - In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still, In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot, I hesitate to draw a line Between the two, where God has not.
Stran 212 - Larga! (make way!) and preceding a Turkish carriage, painted with flowers and birds, and filled with the ladies of a harem, dressed in green and violet, and wrapped in large white veils; behind a Sister of Charity from the hospital at Pera, an African slave carrying a monkey, and a pro* Batistrada.
Stran 212 - Maltese hooded in her black faldetta, the Hebrew woman dressed in the antique costume of India, the negress wrapped in a many-colored shawl from Cairo, the Armenian from Trebizond, all veiled in black like a funeral apparition, are seen in single file, as if placed there on purpose to be contrasted. " It is a changing mosaic of races and religions, that is composed and scattered continually with a rapidity that the eye can scarcely follow.
Stran 122 - ... beyond memory Mecca and the whole peninsula had been steeped in spiritual torpor. The influences of Judaism, Christianity, and philosophy had been feeble and transient. Dark superstitions prevailed, the mothers of dark vices. And now, in thirteen years of preaching, a body of men and women had risen, who rejected idolatry ; worshipped the one great God ; lived lives of prayer ; practised chastity, benevolence, and justice ; and were ready to do and to bear everything for the truth. All this came...
Stran 127 - The mahometan religion is extremely simple; it has no mysteries, no sacraments, no intermediate persons between God and man, known by the name of priests or ministers; no altars, images or ornaments. God is invisible, the heart of man is his altar, and every mussulman is high priest.
Stran 64 - The latter are usually thought of as a destructive force, and rightly ; they have destroyed a great deal and constructed nothing. But in another sense they have proved an eminently conservative force, for they have perpetuated and preserved, as if in a museum, the strange medley which existed in South-Eastern Europe during the last years of the Byzantine Empire. Their idea of government has always been simply to take tribute and secure the paramount position of the Osmanli.
Stran 31 - The Sublime Porte promises to protect constantly the Christian religion and its churches, and it also allows the Ministers of the Imperial Court of Russia to make, upon all occasions, representations, as well in favour of the new church at Constantinople, of which mention will be made in Article XIV, as on behalf of its officiating ministers, promising to take such representations into due consideration, as being made by a confidential functionary of a neighbouring and sincerely friendly Power.
Stran 69 - ... custom of early rising, which, did they occupy themselves in any useful manner, would be undoubtedly very commendable; but, as they only add, by these means, two or three hours of ennui to each day, I am at a loss how to classify it. Their time is spent in dressing themselves, and varying the position of their ornaments — in the bath — and in sleep, which they appear to have as entirely at their beck as a draught of water ; in winter, they have but to nestle under the coverings of the tandour,...