A Residence at Constantinople
by Robert Walsh
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217665940
Paperback|9780217665940
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NARRATIVE RESIDENCE AT CONSTANTINOPLE. CHAPTER I. Turkey of greater curiosity and interest than most other Places, why?Embark in the Suite of an Embassy to the Sublime Porte?Dangerous Passage to the Cambrian Frigate?Alarm for the Safety of our Boat in passing the Needles?Education of young Midshipmen?Amiable Trait of Lady Strangford?Man overboard?Arrival at Gibraltar?General Don?Carteia, ancient Town of Phoenicians?Irish Customs and Opinions?St. Roque?Spanish Characteristics?General O'Donnel?Magnificent Battery?St. Michael's Cave?Trait of Spanish Heroism?Dangerous state of the Rock?Monkeys?Vultures?Diluvial Remains?Notice of the Fortress. You think that, as I am going to a foreign country, my lot is enviable in being cast in the East, where not only sacred lore hallows the remains of remote antiquity, but classic recollections endear each object, and give to distant regions all that exquisite interest which we feel in revisiting the scenes of our youth, and the companions of our school-boy days. This is very true; but I confess I feel a still greater interest from another and very opposite cause. The Turk, that bitter and stubborn enemy to every thing which we hold sacred or learned, is, to me, a more remarkable object of contemplation than either Jew or Greek, because so much more remote in his usages, feelings, and modes of thinking, from any thing we have been accustomed to contemplate. I longed to see Hunker the Manslayer, who is still allowed, as a recreation, to kill fifty of his subjects a day peremptorily, and as many men as he can show cause for; who permits his rajas, of his great bounty, to wear their heads for another year when they pay the capitation tax; who suffers the representatives of his brother sovereigns to be dragged into his presence only when...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217665940 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217665942 |
| Weight | 0.82 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 In |
| List Price | $21.33 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 248 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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