The Hand of God in History: Or, Divine Providence Historically Illustrated ...
The Hand of God in History: Or, Divine Providence Historically Illustrated ...
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He has effected man J useful reforms. And the present Grand Vizier is a libeial and a well educated man, acquainted with Euro- pean civilization, having been embassador to Paris and Digitized by Google 272 HAND OP GOD IN HISTORY. London. He is laboring, and not without success, to modify the laws, and to correct the manners of the Turks. Not long since, we heard of the Sultan presiding in per- son at a meeting of his council, and himself proposing the aboHtion of the slave trade in his dominion...s ; a measure which has since been carried into effect. Innovations of the most encouraging character are daily becoming more and more rife among the Turks, showing a delightful progress of civilized and liberal ideas among the leading minds of the nation, which cannot but meet a response, sooner or later, in the popular mind. Mo- nopolies are abolished ; internal improvements made ; re strictions removed ; a regular system of taxation to take the place of a miserable and oppressive mode of " farm- ing" out a town or province for a fixed sum.
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