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...Türkler ve Balkanlar The Turks and the Balkans Halil İnalcık 9 X - XIV. Yüzyıllarda Orta ve Doğu Avrupa’da İslâm Varlığı The Presence of Islam in Central and Eastern Europe in the X – XIVth Centuries Tasin Gemil 41 Balkanlarda İslam’ın ve Türklü...

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...rished. The Armenians were also raided by Kurdish tribesmen on a regular basis. An Ottoman military tribunal, convened between 1919-21, even convic... ...n 1919-21, even convicted for the crimes members of the administration of the Young Turks, including cabinet ministers. Many of the perpetrators f... ... to cease its mistreatment of the Armenians. This intervention was resented by the Ottoman authorities. By 1915, Armenian calls for autonomy were d... ...a Dagh, Shabin Karahisar and Urfa - as well as setbacks in the war - prevented the Turks for deporting the urban Armenian population in the Ottoman... ...n the war - prevented the Turks for deporting the urban Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire's major cities. Today there are less than 60,000 ... ...95 million people), India (131 million), Russia (33 million), France (27 million), Ottoman Empire (21 million), Germany (14 million), Spain (11 mil...

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...The Post-Ottoman Balkans as a Foreign Country Yabancı Ülke Olarak Osmanlı Sonrası Balkanlar Božidar Jezernik 9 Bosnian Muslims and Their Educational Dillemas in the Austro-Hungarian Period (1878-1918) Bosnalı Müslümanlar ve Avust...

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...debilitating agony, he was left to die for a few days. When he failed to do so, the Turks disembowelled him to death and decapitated the writhing ru... ...o so, the Turks disembowelled him to death and decapitated the writhing rump. The Ottomans granted independence to Bulgaria in the 1878 Treaty of ... ...gn powers in foreign-run and owned schools. Then they set about a typical infandous Ottoman orgy of shredded entrails, gang raped corpses of young g... ...efore. In Ohrid, they buried people in pigsty mud for "not paying taxes". Joined by Turks who escaped the advancing Russian armies in North Bulgaria... .... In October 1878, an uprising took place in Kresna. It was duly suppressed by the Turks, though with some difficulty. It was not the first one, ha... ... well organized and explicit in its goals. But no one - with the exception of the Turks - was content with the situation and even they were parano... ...ants. Further confusion awaited. In 1897, following the Crete uprising against the Ottoman rule and in favour of Greek enosis (unification), Turkey... ...posed to these atrocities, the more one is prone to subscribe to the view that the Ottoman Empire - its halting and half hearted efforts at reform ... ...... Resen (Resana). Let it be clear: this author harbours no sympathy towards the Ottoman Empire. The IMRO was fighting for lofty ideals (Balkania...

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...and odium is hardly surprising, or unprecedented. Empires - Rome, the British, the Ottomans - were always targeted by the disgruntled, the disenfra... ...o rampant mercenaries, erstwhile "allies" turned bitter enemies. At its peak, the Ottoman Empire ruled most of the Balkan, up to the very gates of... ...Africa including Algeria, and most of the Arab Peninsula. It lasted 600 years. The Ottomans invaded Europe while still serving as a proxy army of m... ...des of the twentieth century. Not unlike the Moslem Afghani warriors of 1989, the Ottomans, too, turned on their benefactors and brought on the de... ...mise of Byzantium after 1000 years of uninterrupted existence as a superpower. The Ottomans were named after Osman I, the Oguz (Turkmen) tribal lea... ...r empire, the Byzantines accepted a Faustian deal. They made peace with the Moslem Turks and recruited them as allies and mercenaries against the ... ... Genoa only to lose tax revenues hitherto paid by the Genoese. Foreign powers - the Turks included - manipulated the hopelessly fractured Byzantine ... ...s Adrianople. Cantacuzenus was toppled and denounced for his collaboration with the Turks. Europe woke up to the nightmare on its doorstep. But it w... ...V appealed to the Pope, and through him, to the Western world, for help against the Turks. But the Popes were more concerned with the three centurie...

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...ogo 241 Tokelau 242 Toiwa 243 Trinidad and Tobago 244 Tunisia 246 Turkey 247 Turks and Caicos Islands 249 Tuvalu 250 U Uganda 251 United Arab Emirates... ...pital: Beirut Administrative divisions: 4 provinces Legal system: mixture of Ottoman law, canon law, and civil law; constitution mandated in 1926; no ... ... 97% Berber and Arab; some Greeks, Maltese, Italians, Egyptians, Pakistanis, Turks, Indians, and Tunisians Religion: 97% Sunni Muslim Language: Arabic... ...58.3% agriculture, 28.7% service, 13.0% industry and energy; about 1 million Turks work abroad (1986); effective unemployment rate estimated to be ove... ...ding 31 December 1986, $2.9 billion; 17.3% of central government budget 248 Turks and Caicos Islands North Atlantic Ocean 50km Providenciales "West C... ...icos East Caicos Cockburrvl GRANDTURK* (Cockburnri/ Townl (J, Sail . '. Cay? Turks Islands .--I North Atlantic Ocean See regional map III Geography To...

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...hens, exhorting the Athenians to democracy and greatness. I saw the Parthenon evolve from a temple to Athena, to a Christian church then to an Ottoma... ...urch then to an Ottoman mosque. I saw it explode with sound and light in 1687 as a Venetian shell hit it and exploded the ammunition that the Turks ...

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...ured well into the twentieth century. It was entrenched in the legal systems of the Ottoman Empire and of Czarist Russia. Elements of feudalism surv... ...pulation. There are many precedents - Germans in the Ukraine and in Czechoslovakia, Turks in Bulgaria, Jews in the Arab countries. None of them left... ...and Russia recognized the East-West divide. The implosion of the four empires - the Ottoman, Habsburg, Hohenzollern and Romanov - following the fir...

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...ured well into the twentieth century. It was entrenched in the legal systems of the Ottoman Empire and of Czarist Russia. Elements of feudalism surv... ...pulation. There are many precedents - Germans in the Ukraine and in Czechoslovakia, Turks in Bulgaria, Jews in the Arab countries. None of them left... ...and Russia recognized the East-West divide. The implosion of the four empires - the Ottoman, Habsburg, Hohenzollern and Romanov - following the fir...

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...e of patience. They fed lying on their beds, neere after the manner of the Turks nowadaies, Inde thoro pater æneas sic orsus ab alto. --Virg. Æn. ii... ...w in one hand and a caliver in the other, at two shoots slew the two first Turks that came next to his gates, then resolutely drawing his sword, ran ... ... meanes of negotiation by the example of this infidelitie. Soliman of the Ottomans race (a race little regarding the keeping of promises or performa... ...fully bring them into fashion, and profitably set them a work against the Turks; every one of them containing a Targattier and a Muskettier, with a ...

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...haps the reader will thank us for rehears- ing the main steps by which the Ottoman power had flowed and ebbed. The foundations of this empire were lai... ...inople, put an end to the Roman empire; and before his death he placed the Ottoman power in Europe pretty nearly on that basis to which it had again f... ..., had seen them in turn uniformly routed by the British? Physi- cally, the Turks were equal, at the very least, to the French. *See the sublime Sonnet... ...George came forward as the asserter of Servian independence, and drove the Ottomans out of that prov- ince. Personally he was not finally successful. ... ...een partially kept alive by the existence of a native militia, to whom the Ottoman government, out of mere necessity, had commit- ted the local defenc... ...outed Hassan Pacha in a defile on his march to Yannina; and in general the Turks were defeated everywhere except at the headquarters of the Serasker, ... ...of cementing a general union of Christian and Mahometan forces against the Turks. In this he was so far successful, that in November a combined attack... ...ner of the Peloponnesus. Ev- erywhere the peasants flew to arms; and those Turks who resided in the open country or unfortified towns were either cut ... ...ke; next a cannonade announcing the approach of the Pacha; and, lastly, an Ottoman brig of war, which saluted the fort and cast anchor before the town...

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...le generally, were in the custom of fattening some of the lower orders for ottomans; and to furnish a house comfortably in that respect, you had only ... ...neral miracle. And so it was. Besides, to this day, the highly enlightened Turks devoutly believe in the historical story of Jonah. And some three cen... ...covering the flight of his ladies. In truth, this gentleman is a luxurious Ottoman, swimming about over the watery world, 377 Herman Melville surroun... ...by all the solaces and endearments of the harem. The contrast between this Ottoman and his con- cubines is striking; because, while he is always of th... ...to be in sight, the fishermen will seldom give chase to one of these Grand Turks; for these Grand Turks are too lavish of their strength, and hence th... ...d Turk; then a love of ease and virtue supplants the love for maidens; our Ottoman enters upon the impotent, repentant, admonitory stage of life, fors... ...but some have surmised that the man who first thus en- titled this sort of Ottoman whale, must have read the memoirs of Vidocq, and informed himself w... ... perfumery, in pastiles, precious candles, hair- powders, and pomatum. The Turks use it in cooking, and also 393 Herman Melville carry it to Mecca, f...

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...ple generally,were in the custom of fattening some of the lower orders for ottomans; and to furnish a house comfortably in that respect, you had only ... ...neral miracle. And so it was. Besides, to this day, the highly enlightened Turks devoutly believe in the historical story of Jonah. And some three cen... ... covering the flight of his ladies. In truth, this gentleman is a luxurious Ottoman, swimming about over the watery world, surroundingly accompanied by... ...by all the solaces and endearments of the harem. The contrast between this Ottoman and his concubines is striking; because, while he is always of the ... ... to be in sight, the fishermen will seldom give chase to one of these Grand Turks; for these Grand Turks are too lavish of their strength, and hence th... ...d Turk; then a love of ease and virtue supplants the love for maidens; our Ottoman enters upon the impotent, repentant, admonitory stage of life, for ... ...f, but some have surmised that the man who first thus entitled this sort of Ottoman 378 Chapter 88 Schools and Schoolmasters whale, must have read the... ...n perfumery, in pastiles, precious candles, hair powders, and pomatum. The Turks use it in cooking, and also carry it to Mecca, for the same purpose t...

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...people wore, are trimly arranged against the wall, and, instead of spiking Turks or arming warriors, now serve to point mor- als and adorn tales. And ... ...ex- citement, and did not betray the slightest emotion, as boats with real Turks on board came up to the ship. There lay the town with minarets and cy... ...If a Cockney looks or behaves in a particularly ridiculous way, the little Turks come out and laugh at him. A Londoner is no longer a spittoon for tru... ...d the like; in fact, does not know how to educate idleness as those honest Turks do, and the fruit which, when properly cultivated, it bears. The afte... ... for the use of believers; and you never pass these cemeteries but you see Turks washing at the cisterns, previous to entering for prayer, or squatted... ...folio, and remove the cause of the disturbance, and lost my drawing of the Ottoman Porte. I don’t think I have anything more to say about the city whi... ...en in the spelling-books; else I would tell you that the government of the Ottoman Porte seems to be as rotten, as wrinkled, and as feeble as the old ...

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... : Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you Against the general enemy Ottoman. [To Brabantio ] I did not see you; welcome, gentle signior; We lac... ... News, lads! our wars are done. The desperate tempest hath so bang’d the Turks, That their designment halts: a noble ship of Venice Hath seen a grie... ... Come, let us to the castle. News, friends; our wars are done, the Turks are drown’d. How does my old acquaintance of this isle? Honey, you sh... ...shame! OTHELLO: Why, how now, ho! from whence ariseth this? Are we turn’d Turks, and to ourselves do that Which heaven hath forbid the Ottomites? For...

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...Agree to a short armistice with truth. He had travell’d ‘mongst the Arabs, Turks, and Franks, And knew the self loves of the different nations; ... ...o rear whole hotbeds in their works Because one poet travell’d ‘mongst the Turks)— As they were threading on their way, there came Into Don Ju... ...as open’d wide, And a magnificent large hall display’d The Asian pomp of Ottoman parade. I won’t describe; description is my forte, But ever... ...hisper, toss, and wriggle, But etiquette forbade them all to giggle. The Turks do well to shut — at least, sometimes— The women up, because, i... ...ks, Katinka, too; and with a gentle bow (Curt’sies are neither used by Turks nor Greeks) She took Juanna by the hand to show Their place o... ...nderneath her chair, Or rather sofa (for it was all pillow, A low soft ottoman), and black despair Stirr’d up and down her bosom like a bill... ...oping Conceal’d her features better than a veil; And one hand o’er the ottoman lay drooping, White, waxen, and as alabaster pale: Would th... ...pon a cavalier. But from the river the town ‘s open quite, Because the Turks could never be persuaded A Russian vessel e’er would heave in sig...

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...t you, that the British sell powder and munitions of war to all the world,—Turks, Greeks, and the devil, too, if the devil has money? From Zante we we... ...is made a prefect; and the prime minister comes down to be a foot-boy. The Ottomans have no system of promotion and no hierarchy. From a cavalry offic...

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...dvan- tage of the lull which followed the recapture of these places by the Turks, he obtained leave to return to Spain, and sailed from Naples in Sept... ... earth were dis- abused of the error under which they lay in imagining the Turks to be invincible on sea-on that day, I say, on which the Ottoman prid... ...agining the Turks to be invincible on sea-on that day, I say, on which the Ottoman pride and arrogance were broken, among all that were there made hap... ...became known that Don John had seized Tunis and taken the kingdom from the Turks, and placed Muley Hamet in posses- sion, putting an end to the hopes ... ...esert sand there; for water used to be found at two palms depth, while the Turks found none at two yards; and so by means of a quantity of sandbags th... ...ll be, these stones were needed to support it. The fort also fell; but the Turks had to win it inch by inch, for the soldiers who defended it fought s... ...em only four surnames belonging to families tracing their descent from the Ottoman house, and the others, as I have said, take their names and surname...

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.... ‘Have you a light? I must be going. And by the way, I wish you would let me sell your Turks for you. I always told you, it meant smash. I tell you s... ...rational? – I leave it to yourself.’ ‘O, my dear fellow!’ cried Casimir, ‘stick to your Turks, stick to your stable-boy, go to the devil in general in... ... ways late. I go to Paris. I shall telegraph.’ ‘Henri! what is wrong?’ cried his wife. ‘Ottoman Bonds!’ came from the disappearing Doctor; and Anastas... ...nce of human na- ture and human business is beyond belief. Y ou are swindled by heathen Turks, swindled by vagabond children, swindled right and left,...

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...dvan- tage of the lull which followed the recapture of these places by the Turks, he obtained leave to return to Spain, and sailed from Naples in Sept... ... earth were dis- abused of the error under which they lay in imagining the Turks to be invincible on sea-on that day, I say, on which the Ottoman prid... ...agining the Turks to be invincible on sea-on that day, I say, on which the Ottoman pride 306 Don Quixote and arrogance were broken, among all that we... ...became known that Don John had seized Tunis and taken the kingdom from the Turks, and placed Muley Hamet in posses- sion, putting an end to the hopes ... ...esert sand there; for water used to be found at two palms depth, while the Turks found none at two yards; and so by means of a quantity of sandbags th... ...ll be, these stones were needed to support it. The fort also fell; but the Turks had to win it inch by inch, for the soldiers who defended it fought s... ...em only four surnames belonging to families tracing their descent from the Ottoman house, and the others, as I have said, take their names and surname... ...at had an humble origin and rose to the greatness they still preserve, the Ottoman house may serve as an example, which from an humble and lowly sheph...

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... them. But I cannot decide by their appearance whether they are Spaniards, Turks, Arabians, or Indians. As to their language, it is quite incomprehens... ...my friends, and I will teach you.” Ned and Conseil seated themselves on an ottoman, and 141 Jules Verne the first thing the Canadian asked was: “Sir,... ...hole of this island had risen in insurrection against the despotism of the Turks. But how the insur- gents had fared since that time I was absolutely ... ...aloon to the library. My companions were silent. I soon threw myself on an ottoman, and took a book, which my eyes overran me- chanically. A quarter o...

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...Her greatest trade will always be with Central Europe. For generations the Turks held Thrace and Anatolia before they secured Constantinople. The Turk... ...e trend of events in Asia Minor, the break- ing up and decapitation of the Ottoman Empire and the Euphrates invasion, points to a great revival of Mes...

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...into Mr. Osborne’s, who, of course, could see the way among the chairs and ottomans a great deal better than she could. But this ar- rangement left Mr... ...t, too tender, too trustful, too weak, too much woman to recall it. We are Turks with the affections of our women; and have made them subscribe to our...

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...e Christian nations on the 228 The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest skirts of the Ottoman empire might be made our allies, and attack the Turk in his rear. I... ... his last breath confessed that he slew not my father, but sold him to the Turks, I have been only awaiting recovery from my wound to go in search of ... ...ade to each of the captives, if they would become Moslems, of entering the Ottoman service as Spahis; but with one voice they had refused, and had the...

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...at had an humble origin and rose to the greatness they still preserve, the Ottoman house may serve as an example, which from an humble and lowly sheph... ...ts from her calling on them to surrender, two Toraquis, that is to say two Turks, both drunken, that with a dozen more were on board the brigantine, d... ...troubled when I thought of the danger he was in, for among those barbarous Turks a fair youth is more esteemed than a woman, be she ever so beautiful.... ...en arranged that I should return to Spain in this brigantine, and that two Turks, those who killed your soldiers, should accompany me. There also came... ...turn- ing to Barbary. The rest of the crew of the brigantine are Moors and Turks, who merely serve as rowers. The two T urks, greedy and inso- lent, i... ...e crime they have committed;” and with that he gave orders to have the two Turks who had killed his two soldiers hanged at once at the yard- arm. The ...

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...es.” “Then I should know something of it,” said Dalgetty; “for, except the Turks, there are few powers in Europe whom I have not served; and I have so... ...you—I learned the art from a Polonian heyduck, who had been a slave in the Ottoman seraglio—and then seek out a mode of retreat.” “Villain! you would ...

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...uld come where he was, if she wanted him so much; he would support her on an ottoman, and make it easy for her to see. But Mrs. Luna was uncompromisin... ...y to advocate a man’s having a half a dozen wives.’ ‘The civilisation of the Turks, then, strikes you as the highest?’ ‘The Turks have a second rate r...

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...into Mr. Osborne’s, who, of course, could see the way among the chairs and ottomans a great deal better than she could. But this ar- rangement left Mr... ...t, too tender, too trustful, too weak, too much woman to recall it. We are Turks with the affections of our women; and have made them subscribe to our... ...; and so the case is, more or less, with them all. I tell you they are all Turks in their hearts. Pooh! sir, they know the world.” And here, haply, a ... ...ga has become a peaceful black slave. It is sunrise on the desert, and the Turks turn their heads eastwards and bow to the sand. As there are no drome...

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...ay long,’ said Arthur: and somehow Violet made a space between them on the ottoman, and pulled him down into it; and whereas he saw his wife and siste... ...e amber mouth- piece I desired John to tell you of.’ ‘Not I. I don’t bring Turks’ fashion into Christian coun- tries. Y ou ought to learn better manne... ...hey found the room very warm and crowded. Theodora saw Violet lodged on an ottoman, and then strayed away to her own friends. Mrs. Finch soon arrived,...

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...ce. The castle which formed the protection of the town was given up to the Turks by a French officer named Fernand, in whom the grand vizier, Ali Tepe... ... not only surrendered the castle of Yanina, but sold his benefactor to the Turks, styled himself truly at that time Fernand, as our esteemed contempor... ...pale brow. He then entered the room. Madame de Villefort was sitting on an ottoman and impatiently turning over the leaves of some newspa- pers and pa...

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...not but be extremely un- comfortable left standing. Besides, there was the Ottoman cleverly poised again; the Muscovite was battered; fresh guilt was ... ...o me. I do so much wish to respect men, and all my experience tells me the Turks know best how to preserve it for us. Two men in this house would give...

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...e induced to cross one’s arms upon one’s frock, and say, like those wicked Turks, there is no What’s-his-name but Thingummy , and What-you-may-call-it... ...ing together apart, and Mrs Dombey and her mother: the former seated on an ottoman; the latter reclining in the Cleopatra attitude, awaiting the arriv...

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...and alms; the scholasticist madrasa; Sufism. But the first group to come into contact with Islam in Central Asia were not the Shamanistic or Buddhist Turks. It was the Zoroastrian Persians.22 Within 100 years of the death of the Prophet Muhammad, i.e. by 750, the Muslim Arabs had expanded their political state far beyond the Arab lands. Consequently, the Muslim community...

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...o Future Generations Studies in Comparative Communism Vol. XIX, Nos. 3-4, Autumn/Winter 1986 Two Mythical PANs: Uses of Apocrypha Ascribed to the Turks Eurasian Studies (Ankara) Summer 1994; Translation in Avrasya Etri (Ankara) Yaz, 2, 199 Two Altaic Games: Chelik-Chomak and Jirid Oyunu Aspects of Altaic Civilization III, Denis Sinor, ed. (Bloomington/The Hague: ...

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... of their differing from it in some doc trines and ceremonies, whilst the Turks, in the mean while, silently stand by and laugh to see with what inh... ...ce to the Mufti of Constantinople, who himself is entirely obedient to the Ottoman Emperor and frames the feigned oracles of that religion accord ing... ...o agree in one rule are of one and the same religion, and vice versa. Thus Turks and Christians are of differ ent religions, because these take the H...

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...uguese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, V e- netians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at Marseil... ...mposed herself voluptuously, in a nest of crimson and gold cushions, on an ottoman near the parrot. 237 Little Dorrit ‘Also professional?’ said Mrs M... ...casionally arranged her dress, or the com- position of her figure upon the ottoman. ‘So he is very impressible. Not a misfortune in our natural state ... ...verie from which he was only aroused by his wife’s calling to him from her ottoman, when they had been for some quarter of an hour alone. ‘Eh? Y es?’ ... ...and Mr Merdle, seated diverse ways and with ruminating aspects on a yellow ottoman in the light of the fire, holding no verbal communication with each... ..., he took himself into custody by the wrists, and backed himself among the ottomans and chairs and tables as if he were his own Police officer, saying...

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... their wives and children; and I think the despising of marriage amongst the Turks, maketh the vulgar soldier more base. Certainly wife and children a... ...owards men, it will take unto other living crea tures; as it is seen in the Turks, a cruel people, who never theless are kind to beasts, and give al... ...e is no nobility at all, is ever a pure and absolute tyranny; as that of the Turks. For nobil ity attempers sovereignty, and draws the eyes of the p... ...at we named before) was so fatal to Solyman’s line, as the succession of the Turks, from Solyman until this day, is suspected to be untrue, and of str... ... Gauls, Germans, Goths, Saxons, Normans, and others, had it for a time. The Turks have it at this day, though in great declination. Of Christian Euro... ... founders of states and common—wealths; such as were Romulus, Cyrus, Caesar, Ottoman, Ismael. In the second place are legislatores, lawgivers; which ...

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... of the Egyptian army was stopped—the menaced empire of 19 Burlesques the Ottomans was saved from ruin; the Marchioness of Stokepogis, our ambassador... ...As thus:— “‘Lady Emily was reclining on one of Down and Eider’s voluptuous ottomans, the only couch on which Belgravian beauty now reposes, when Lord ... ...urlesques description of the city under its Moorish governors. Besides the Turks who inhabited it, there dwelt within its walls great store of those o...

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...48 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume One come certain that the Turks would send an expedition to Egypt; and Napoleon viewing the garrisons... ... same levity, the same want of depth both as to feeling and principle. The Turks are much nearer to the English: the same gravity of temperament, the ... ...the idea of a translation from the old western Rome, and overthrown by the Ottoman T urks in the year 1453. In the fortunes and main stages of this em...

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...uguese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, V e- netians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at Marseil... ...mposed herself voluptuously, in a nest of crimson and gold cushions, on an ottoman near the parrot. 237 Little Dorrit – Book One ‘Also professional?’... ...casionally arranged her dress, or the com- position of her figure upon the ottoman. ‘So he is very impressible. Not a misfortune in our natural state ... ...verie from which he was only aroused by his wife’s calling to him from her ottoman, when they had been for some quarter of an hour alone. ‘Eh? Y es?’ ...

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... not to ward a blow. The Island of Gozzo being taken some years ago by the Turks, a Sicilian, who had two beautiful daughters marriageable, killed the... ...espondence and negotiation, by this example of infidelity. Soliman, of the Ottoman race, a race not very solicitous of keeping their words or compacts...

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...e valet came into the room with his coffee, Pierre was lying asleep on the ottoman with an open book in his hand. He woke up and looked round for a wh... ... is it meant to prove? What? I ask you.” Pierre turned over heavily on the ottoman and opened his mouth, but could not reply. “If you won’t answer, I’... ...ill choked her. The mummers (some of the house serfs) dressed up as bears, Turks, innkeepers, and ladies—frightening and funny—bringing in with them t... ...ch spoiled people are so prone. “Y es, I know you have made peace with the Turks without obtaining Moldavia and W allachia; I would have given your so... ... I have five hundred and thirty thousand men this side of the Vistula. The Turks will be of no use to you; they are worth nothing and have shown it by... ...peror’s arrival and of thanksgiv- ing for the conclusion of peace with the Turks—the crowd outside spread out and hawkers appeared, selling kvas, ging... ... was heard from the embankment, to celebrate the signing of peace with the Turks, and the crowd rushed impetuously to- ward the embankment to watch th...