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Excerpt from Turkey: Being Sketches From Life
I have ventured to intrude upon your leisure to acquaint you with a few loose facts, which I have learned in various ways, respecting our mutual connections, the Turks.
The dominant fraction of a people without a head, torn by discontented and stubborn or frantic nationalities, with a most abominable internal organization; acting upon principles of government utterly false and absurd, yet rooted in their minds harassed and waylaid at every turn by foreign in?uence, often in the hands of interested and improper people bowing a stiff and unwilling neck to that in?uence, but resenting it in their deep stern hearts; undoing, therefore, with the right hand that which they have been just forced to accomplish with the left; seemingly pliable and easy, but really obstinate and austere beyond belief, - such (and something more) are our estimable allies. I am sorry for it; so, I dare say, are you; but this, unfortunately, does not alter the fact, or the results which are likely to arise from it, be those results what they may.
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I have ventured to intrude upon your leisure to acquaint you with a few loose facts, which I have learned in various ways, respecting our mutual connections, the Turks.
The dominant fraction of a people without a head, torn by discontented and stubborn or frantic nationalities, with a most abominable internal organization; acting upon principles of government utterly false and absurd, yet rooted in their minds harassed and waylaid at every turn by foreign in?uence, often in the hands of interested and improper people bowing a stiff and unwilling neck to that in?uence, but resenting it in their deep stern hearts; undoing, therefore, with the right hand that which they have been just forced to accomplish with the left; seemingly pliable and easy, but really obstinate and austere beyond belief, - such (and something more) are our estimable allies. I am sorry for it; so, I dare say, are you; but this, unfortunately, does not alter the fact, or the results which are likely to arise from it, be those results what they may.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
Roving Englishman
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780365246114
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm
Page Count - 396
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Author
Roving Englishman
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781331367208
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm
Page Count - 398
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