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Contents
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| 35 | |
| 64 | |
| 82 | |
Travellers and their Search for Classical Antiquities | 101 |
19th Century Izmir | 111 |
19th Century Istanbul as Aesthetic Object | 135 |
Istanbul as Labyrinth | 151 |
Ottoman Outdoor Recreations | 205 |
Ottoman Meals and British Palates | 223 |
the Physical and Moral Character of the Ottoman Turks | 234 |
Images of Greeks Armenians and Jew | 265 |
The Invention of Ottoman Women | 274 |
the Sultans | 308 |
The Visibility of Ottoman Justice 324 | |
Travellers and the Critics 339 | |
the Sights of Istanbul | 175 |
Ottoman Slavery | 186 |
Manifestations of Islam | 196 |
The Careers Routes and Views of Travellers in Turkey and | |
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Popular passages
Page 154 - So sweet, the sense faints picturing them! Thou For whose path the Atlantic's level powers Cleave themselves into chasms, while far below The sea-blooms and the oozy woods which wear The sapless foliage of the ocean, know Thy voice, and suddenly grow gray with fear, And tremble and despoil themselves: oh, hear!
Page 196 - The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule.
Page 84 - I send you a note for the ignorant, but I really wonder at finding you among them. I don't care one lump of sugar for my poetry; but for my costume and my correctness on those points (of which I think the funeral was a proof), I will combat lustily.
Page 148 - ... the sky. At first, agglomerated in a single confused mass, the lesser parts of this immense whole seemed, as we advanced, by degrees to unfold — to disengage themselves from each other, and to grow into various groups, divided by wide chasms and deep indentures ; until at last the...
Page 93 - Those rich lands at this present remain waste and overgrown with bushes, receptacles of wild beasts, of thieves, and murderers; large territories dispeopled, or thinly inhabited ; goodly cities made desolate ; sumptuous buildings become ruins ; glorious temples either subverted or prostituted to impiety — true religion discountenanced and oppressed ; all nobility extinguished ; no light of learning permitted, nor virtue cherished ; violence and rapine insulting over all and leaving no security...
Page 75 - He was the mildest mannered man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat ; With such true breeding of a gentleman, You never could divine his real thought...
Page 246 - As to physical causes, I am inclined to doubt altogether of their operation in this particular ; nor do I think that men owe any thing of their temper or genius to the air, food, or climate.
Page 246 - ... regions, and snow and ice follow one another in endless succession. The warm humor is lacking among them; their bodies are large, their natures gross, their manners harsh, their understanding dull, and their tongues heavy.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Oriental Panorama: British Travellers in 19th Century Turkey Volume 33 of Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen Und Vergleichende Volume 33 of Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Oriental Panorama: British Travellers in 19th Century Turkey, Reinhold Schiffer |
| Author | Reinhold Schiffer |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Rodopi, 1999 |
| ISBN | 904200407X, 9789042004078 |
| Length | 445 pages |
| Subjects | › › Travel / Middle East / General |
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