Truths And Fictions of the Middle Ages: the Merchant And the Friar
Truths And Fictions of the Middle Ages: the Merchant And the Friar
Sir Francis Palgrave
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Sin- cerely and earnestly do I hope that no observation which I have made will, in the slightest degree, impede the march of improvement in the Ottoman Empire. Crowned heads I flatter not; but I am bound to render my humble tribute of respect unto Sultan Mahmoud, MER. AND FRIAR. L 146 PARLIAMENT. in acknowledging the efforts which he makes for the purpose of enlightening his subjects, though some people think he goes rather too fast. It may be doubted whether he will derive much advantage from ...the seizure of the rvakoofs appropriated to the support of the dancing Dervishes, for the purpose of endowing a Corps de Ballet in their stead. Should the Turks become infidels, his Highness will have gained little by exchanging the bullets of Fieschi and Meunier for the bowstring of the Janissaries. A good Pacha with three tails, is a cheap and effectual substitute for the most systematic system of codification which the Jurists of the new school can supply. But the truth is, and I hope the Sultan will know it, that I introduced the Uzbeck quotation, for the pur- pose of giving a collateral explanation of the working of the ancient constitution of this Realm, when we and the Uzbecks were perhaps upon a par.
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