Constantinople in 1828: A Residence of Sixteen Months in the Turkish Capital and Provinces: with an Account of the Present State of the Naval and Military Power, and of the Resources of the Ottoman Empire, Volume 1 |
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Constantinople In 1828: A Residence of Sixteen Months in the Turkish Capital ... Charles MacFarlane No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 77 - In their lowest servitude and depression, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures of antiquity ; of a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.
Page 322 - When the topjis saw the dreadful wave rolling towards them, and heard their brethren calling on their prophet, and on other objects of common adoration, they wavered — they turned from their guns. This was the awful crisis. A determined officer of the topjis, known by the significant name of Kara-djehennem (or Black Hell) rushed to one of the guns, and fired it, by discharging his pistol over the priming. The effect of grapeshot on the solid body cooped up in a narrow street, was horrible ; the...
Page 322 - ... were received, Mahmood ordered a general attack, having secured the mufti's fetva, which gave a spiritual sanction to the destruction of all that should resist the imperial arms. The topjis and their artillery, supported by the troops of the Agha-Pasha, hurried through the different narrow streets that open on the Et-meidan square. If the Janissaries had had a few intelligent officers to direct their movements, the final result might have been delayed, and their fate somewhat different; but all...
Page 381 - They were read aloud at Warley Common and at Barham Downs, by the adjutants, at the head of five different regiments, at each camp, and much was expected. But before they were half finished, all the front ranks, and as many of the others as were within hearing or verse-shot, dropped their arms suddenly, and were all found fast asleep ! Marquis Townshend, who never approved of the scheme, said, with his usual pleasantry, that the first of all poets observed, 'that sleep is the brother of death.
Page 163 - ... most familiarly, mixing with the people in the streets, but rarely entering the parts of the town inhabited by the Greeks or Armenians, by whom, possibly, they may be occasionally disturbed. Nothing can be more interesting than the view of an assemblage of their nests. Divided as they always are into pairs, sometimes only the long elastic neck of one of them is to be seen peering from its cradle of nestlings, the mate standing by on one of his long slim legs, and watching with every sign of the...
Page 381 - Tyrtaeus the Spartan. They were designed to produce animation throughout the kingdom, and among the militia in particular. Several of the reviewing generals, (I do not mean the Monthly or Critical,) were much impressed with their weight and importance, and at a board of general officers, an experiment was agreed upon, which unfortunately failed. They were read aloud...
Page 55 - Throughout the Ottoman dominions," he wrote, "their pusillanimity is so excessive, that they will flee before the uplifted hand of a child. Yet in England the Jews become bold and expert pugilists, and are as ready to resent an insult as any other of His Majesty's liege subjects.
Page 163 - ... the fields, and thence return with a large twig or other materials for the nest, or a supply of provisions for his occupied partner. Other couples would be grouped on the edges of the stupendous ruin, entwining their pliant necks and mixing their long bills ; or in pretty coquetry, one would bend her neck over her back, and bury her bill in the luxuriant plumage...