The Ottoman Power in Europe: Its Nature, Its Growth, and Its DeclineMacmillan and Company, 1877 - 315 sider |
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Side viii
... seem unable to understand that there are those who support or oppose this or that minister , because he follows or does not follow a certain line of policy , who do not follow or oppose a certain line of policy because it is or is not ...
... seem unable to understand that there are those who support or oppose this or that minister , because he follows or does not follow a certain line of policy , who do not follow or oppose a certain line of policy because it is or is not ...
Side xv
... seems to have lost even that amount of practical vigour which is involved in forbidding an act of humanity or in exhorting the Turk to suppress an insurrection . Of all things absolutely helpless the most helpless surely is the ...
... seems to have lost even that amount of practical vigour which is involved in forbidding an act of humanity or in exhorting the Turk to suppress an insurrection . Of all things absolutely helpless the most helpless surely is the ...
Side xvii
... seem likely to do much to- wards " terminating the incident , " if , by " terminating the incident " is meant putting an end to the " eternal Eastern Question " and its causes . The phrase is not a bad one . The presence of the Turk ...
... seem likely to do much to- wards " terminating the incident , " if , by " terminating the incident " is meant putting an end to the " eternal Eastern Question " and its causes . The phrase is not a bad one . The presence of the Turk ...
Side 14
... seem to be , as it were , converging towards one model . The worst European governments in the worst times have kept up a certain show of right , a certain profession of regard for law , even where the laws were worst in themselves and ...
... seem to be , as it were , converging towards one model . The worst European governments in the worst times have kept up a certain show of right , a certain profession of regard for law , even where the laws were worst in themselves and ...
Side 26
... seems to have been practised by one or two of the later Macedonian kings , besides the well - known case of Alexander himself . But this only shows that they had partially adopted Eastern manners , and the practice never became usual ...
... seems to have been practised by one or two of the later Macedonian kings , besides the well - known case of Alexander himself . But this only shows that they had partially adopted Eastern manners , and the practice never became usual ...
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The Ottoman Power in Europe: Its Nature, Its Growth and Its Decline Edward Augustus Freeman Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1877 |
The Ottoman Power in Europe: Its Nature, Its Growth, and Its Decline Edward Augustus Freeman Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1877 |
The Ottoman Power in Europe: Its Nature, Its Growth, and Its Decline Edward Augustus Freeman Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1877 |
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Populære avsnitt
Side 264 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Side xvi - If their hopes should once more be disappointed, and if the condition of the Christian subjects of the Sultan should not be improved in a manner to prevent the return of the complications which periodically disturb the peace of the East, they think it right to declare that such a state of affairs would be incompatible with their interests and those of Europe in general.
Side xvii - The presence of the Turk and the "eternal Eastern Question" which his presence causes, is really only an "incident" though it is an incident which has gone on for five hundred years. The Turk's presence in Europe is incidental. It is something strange, abnormal, 220 contrary to the general system of Europe, something which keeps that system always out of gear, something which supplies a never-failing stock of difficulties and complications. The Turk in Europe, in short, answers to Lord Palmerston's...
Side xix - But we cannot sacrifice our people, the people of Aryan and Christian Europe, to the most genuine belief in an Asian mystery.
Side 253 - ... monstrous severity with which the Bulgarian insurrection was put down, but the necessity which exists for England to prevent changes from occurring here which would be most detrimental to ourselves, is not affected by the question whether it was 10,000 or 20,000 persons who perished in the suppression. We have been upholding what we know to be a...
Side 265 - An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Side 253 - To the accusation of being a blind partisan of the Turks, I will only answer that my conduct here has never been guided by any sentimental affection for them but by a firm determination to uphold the interests of Great Britain to the utmost of my power, and that those interests are deeply engaged in preventing the disruption of the Turkish Empire...