New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals and Translations, Volume 4Sir R. Phillips and Company, 1820 - Voyages and travels |
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... thing , on a retrospec- tive review , appears of doubtful consideration . PLATE I. - View of Constantinople , from the Tower of the Janissary Aga , to its Extremity on the Land - Side : Here the point of view is the top of the Palace of ...
... thing , on a retrospec- tive review , appears of doubtful consideration . PLATE I. - View of Constantinople , from the Tower of the Janissary Aga , to its Extremity on the Land - Side : Here the point of view is the top of the Palace of ...
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... things . " This capital , in changing its masters , has not changed its fortune , unless it be to shine with additional splendour ; in detail , it does not offer those tributes of genius which the un- shackled mind of freedom can alone ...
... things . " This capital , in changing its masters , has not changed its fortune , unless it be to shine with additional splendour ; in detail , it does not offer those tributes of genius which the un- shackled mind of freedom can alone ...
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... thing not uncommon here . Notwithstanding this special benevolence , dogs are not the less obliged to live in the streets and to have no masters only the public ; but if a dog is scarcely ever seen in the house of a Turk , by way of ...
... thing not uncommon here . Notwithstanding this special benevolence , dogs are not the less obliged to live in the streets and to have no masters only the public ; but if a dog is scarcely ever seen in the house of a Turk , by way of ...
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... thing , at least re- fuse nothing , without at the same time yielding it ; gain time by evasive answers ; often committing irreparable blunders by this system of temporising , applied without modification to all circumstances , and ...
... thing , at least re- fuse nothing , without at the same time yielding it ; gain time by evasive answers ; often committing irreparable blunders by this system of temporising , applied without modification to all circumstances , and ...
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... thing ; nevertheless , there are three persons whom he fears , and these are the validé - sultan , the chief of the black eunuchs , and the sword - bearer of his highness . He holds a divan three times a week , with the two cazy - asker ...
... thing ; nevertheless , there are three persons whom he fears , and these are the validé - sultan , the chief of the black eunuchs , and the sword - bearer of his highness . He holds a divan three times a week , with the two cazy - asker ...
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