Turkey: Its History and Progress, المجلد 1

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Hurst & Blackett, 1854
Porter served as a diplomat in Constantinople from 1747 to 1762. These volumes contain his important papers especially with respect to the Ottoman Empire, but also to other important diplomatic events during his career. For example, the appendix of Volume I contains letters from other people written to or about Porter, and also includes a journal that Porter kept while in Vienna in 1741, documenting negotiations between Prussia and Austria under Frederick the Great and Maria Theresa respectively. Vol. I was edited from Porter's previously published "Observations on the Turks," letters, and other papers, and is organized by theme in order to elucidate Turkey through Porter's eyes. A memoir of him, written by his grandson, begins the volume. The first volume contains a general introduction to the Ottoman Empire, with physical, industrial, economic, historical, religious, and social descriptions. The second volume focuses on the religious and civil government of Turkey, the law, education (including public libraries), the financial system, the military and navy, and social commentary.
 

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الصفحة 319 - Chriftians, who may have difcuffions or altercations with Turks, if he has a woman of fpirit, a virago for his wife, fets her to rout and brow-beat them; and by this means not unfrequently gains his point.
الصفحة 250 - O wives of the prophet, whosoever of you shall commit a manifest wickedness, the punishment thereof shall be doubled unto her twofold, and this is easy with GOD...
الصفحة 283 - After the most pressing, solicitations, the judge calmly drew out from under his sofa the bag of ducats which the rich man had given him as a bribe, saying to him very gravely, " You have been much mistaken in' the suit, for if the poor man can produce no witnesses in confirmation of his right, I myself can produce at least five hundred.
الصفحة 246 - Verily, we sent down the Koran in the night of Al Kadr. And what shall make thee understand how excellent the night of Al Kadr is ? This night is better than a thousand months. Therein do the angels descend, and the spirit Gabriel also, by the permission of their Lord, with his decrees concerning every matter. It is peace until the rising of the morn."* On this favoured night, be* Koran, ch.
الصفحة 250 - O wives of the prophet, ye are not as other women: if ye fear God, be not too complaisant in speech, lest he should covet, in whose heart is a disease of incontinence: but speak the speech which is convenient. And...
الصفحة 194 - Although Selim had been confined in the Seraglio by his uncle, he had been in other respects well treated. His love of information and his natural talents had induced him to carry on an active correspondence with several servants of his father and his uncle. Their information had, however, in no way satisfied him, and he had commenced a correspondence with Choiseuil, the French Envoy at Constantinople in 1786, and had also sent his intimate friend Isaac Bey to France, to enquire into the state measures...
الصفحة 248 - They have sworn by GOD, by the most solemn oath, that if a sign came unto them, they would certainly believe therein : Say, Verily signs are in the power of GOD alone ; and he permitteth you not to understand, that when they come, they will not believe...
الصفحة 282 - ... proof, witnesses. The other, provided with witnesses, laid his whole stress on them, and on his adversary's defect in law, who could produce none ; he therefore urged the cadi to give sentence in his favour. After the most pressing solicitations, the judge calmly drew from...
الصفحة 330 - ladies of quality," who are always falling in love with Franks supposed to be gullahle or rich ; and So-and-So, who allowed himself to be dressed as a woman, and nearly injured his spine by an exaggerated imitation of the wriggling walk of a true Masriyeh, may be assured that the adventure was known beforehand in his hotel, and known all over Cairo the next day. The heroine was merely the commonplace foil of the too-celebrated Stamboolina. Egyptian women certainly are, according to all accounts,...

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