Conversations and Journals in Egypt and Malta, Bindi 2S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1882 |
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Síða 158 - of February 18, 1856. The principal provisions of this imperial order are as follows : — ' Full liberty of worship is guaranteed to every religious profession. No one can be forced to change his religion. No legal documents shall acknowledge any inferiority of one class of Turkish subjects to another, in consequence of difference in religion, race, or language. All foreigners may possess landed property, while obeying the laws, and paying the taxes.
Síða 142 - The halls and passages, which I used to find full of Mamelukes and officers strutting about in the fulness of their contempt for a Christian, were empty. Without encountering a single attendant I reached his room overlooking the sea ; it was dimly lighted by a few candles of bad Egyptian wax, with enormous untrimmed wicks. Here, at the end of his divan, I found him rolled up in a sort of ball — solitary, motionless, apparently absorbed in thought. The waves were breaking heavily on the mole, and...
Síða 177 - all that you have given me of Machiavelli. I did not find much that was new in your first ten pages, but I hoped that it might improve; but the next ten were not better, and the last are mere common-place. I see that I have nothing to learn from Machiavelli. I know many more tricks than he knew; you need not translate any more of him.
Síða 98 - For both commercial and military purposes we are nearer to India than any European nation except Spain and Portugal, which are nothing. When the canal is open, all the coasts of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea will be nearer India than we are.
Síða 167 - You must interfere; you must insist on there being some security for property and life. You see here large commercial and industrial establishments. Did you ever hear of a native house of business or of a native manufactory? No person who does not enjoy foreign protection has any credit. No one would trust an unprotected Egyptian, however large his capital, since that capital might be destroyed or confiscated in a day, or indeed in an...
Síða 228 - The people he liked best to talk to were his servants, the lads who brought him his pipes and stood before him with their arms crossed. He sometimes sat on his sofa and smoked, and talked to them for hours, all about women and such things. ... I have known him sometimes try to read a French novel, but he would be two hours getting through a page. Once or twice, I saw him attempt to write. His letters were half an inch high, like those of a child's copybook. I don't think that he ever finished a sentence.
Síða 227 - and his brother Mustapha, when they were in Paris, used to buy whatever they saw ; they were like children, nothing was fine enough for them ; they bought carriages and horses like those of Queen Victoria or the Emperor, and let them spoil for want of shelter and cleaning. . . . The people he liked best to talk to were his servants, the lads who brought him his pipes and stood before him with their arms crossed. He sometimes sat on his sofa and smoked, and talked to them for hours, all about women...
Síða 98 - Spain, which are nothing; when the Canal is open all the coasts of the Mediterranean, indeed all the coasts of the Black Sea, will be nearer to India, than we are. We know that the first proposer of the Canal was Napoleon, and that he proposed it for the purpose of injuring England. At present India is unattackable. It will be no longer so when Bombay is only 2300 leagues from Marseilles.
Síða 118 - in fact, Stephan Bey and Edhem Pasha are the only ministers that occur to me who have not been slaves—and I doubt their continuance in power. The Liberti will intrigue against the Ingenui, and drive them out
Síða 198 - Every hareem is a little despotism in which the vices of a despotism — its lawlessness, its cruelty, its intrigues, the pride and selfishness of its master, and the degradation of its subjects — are reproduced on a smaller scale, but not with less intensity.