Travels Through Syria and Egypt, in the Years 1783, 1784, and 1785: Containing the Present Natural and Political State of Those Countries, Their Productions, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce; with Observations on the Manners,customs, and Government of the Turks and Arabs. Illustrated with Copper Plates, 2권G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1788 |
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22 페이지 - Kehie was greatly astonished, and ordered a body of horse to accompany him, and if refused admission to force the convent. " The Kadi took part with the merchant, and the affair was referred to the law; the ground where the bundle had been buried was opened, and a dead body found, which the unhappy father discovered to be that of his youngest daughter; the other was found confined in the convent, and almost dead.
189 페이지 - Most of the letters have four forms in writing, depending on whether they occur at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of a word or whether they stand separately.
489 페이지 - ... turbulence of their difpofitions, are never fo brutal as we frequently fee them with us, and they have the great merit of not being addicted to drunkennefs, a vice from which even our country peafants are not free.
65 페이지 - Englifhmen or Frenchmen would not have lived ten. They have no knowledge of the fcience of fortification, the management of artillery, or encampments, nor, in a word, any thing which conftitutes the art of war. But, had they among them a few perfons verfed in military fcience, they would readily acquire its principles, and become a formidable foldiery. This would be the more eafily effedted, as their mulberry plantations and F 4 vineyards vineyards do not occupy them all the year, and they could...
236 페이지 - These stones are of a white granite, with large shining flakes ; there is a quarry of this kind of stone under the whole city and in the adjacent...
20 페이지 - From one of the doors came out three women with spades and shovels in their hands, who were followed by two men, bearing a long white bundle, which appeared very heavy. They proceeded towards an adjoining piece of ground, full of...
479 페이지 - In fact, from the practice of polygamy permitted by the Koran, the Turks, in general, are enervated very 'early, and nothing is more common than to hear men of thirty complaining of impotence. This is the malady for which they chiefly confult the Europeans, defiring them to give them Madjoun, by which they mean provocatives.
72 페이지 - Shaiks dees not exempt them from paying tribute, in proportion to their revenues. It confers on them no prerogatives, either in the attainment of landed property, or public employments. In this country, no more than in all Turkey, are they acquainted with gamelaws, or glebes, or feigniorial, or...
70 페이지 - I obferved to them that they wanted prudence, their anfwer was, '' God is liberal and great, and all men are " brethren." There are, therefore, no inns in this country, any more than in the reft of Turkey. When they have once contracted with their gueft, the facred engagement of bread and fait, no fubfequent event can make them violate it: Various inftances of this are related, which do honour to their character.