The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical, ecclesiastical & literary miscellany, Volume 291855 |
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Page 152
... Janissaries - to their Tartar horse , they formed that body of troops , from first to last , for near 500 years , of boys , all born Christians , a body of at first 12,000 , at last 40,000 strong , torn away , year by year , from their ...
... Janissaries - to their Tartar horse , they formed that body of troops , from first to last , for near 500 years , of boys , all born Christians , a body of at first 12,000 , at last 40,000 strong , torn away , year by year , from their ...
Page 242
... Janissaries , were now forced to for- swear their faith ; and here did Mollah David of Cæsarea ' comment and split hairs on the incomprehensible subtleties of the renowned mystical work , " The Seal Ring of Philosophies . ' Here also ...
... Janissaries , were now forced to for- swear their faith ; and here did Mollah David of Cæsarea ' comment and split hairs on the incomprehensible subtleties of the renowned mystical work , " The Seal Ring of Philosophies . ' Here also ...
Page 248
... Janissaries . This great military corporation , the most remarkable that the world has ever seen grow up within the laws and policy of a state , traced its origin , according to the chief Ottoman annalists , to the counsellors of Orchan ...
... Janissaries . This great military corporation , the most remarkable that the world has ever seen grow up within the laws and policy of a state , traced its origin , according to the chief Ottoman annalists , to the counsellors of Orchan ...
Page 249
... Janissaries from Christian captive boys , and , later on , to the establishment of a fixed tribute of young children , from the Christian population , to feed their schools , —a tribute which in the flourishing times of the Ottomans was ...
... Janissaries from Christian captive boys , and , later on , to the establishment of a fixed tribute of young children , from the Christian population , to feed their schools , —a tribute which in the flourishing times of the Ottomans was ...
Page 250
... Janissaries , and the Sultan's pages , ' says Von Hammer , ' issued the greatest men of the Ottoman empire . As ' long as the yearly levy of Christian children continued , and ' the expeditions of the Ottomans yielded their yearly booty ...
... Janissaries , and the Sultan's pages , ' says Von Hammer , ' issued the greatest men of the Ottoman empire . As ' long as the yearly levy of Christian children continued , and ' the expeditions of the Ottomans yielded their yearly booty ...
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Page 391 - Ye men of Israel, hear these words ; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, (which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know...
Page 388 - Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; 3.
Page 123 - They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; To gods whom they knew not, To new gods that came newly up, Whom your fathers feared not.
Page 157 - I knew not whether from the good cause or the bad; darkness and lights; tempest and human faces; and at last, with the sense that all was lost, female forms, and the features that were worth all the world to me, and but a moment allowed — and clasped hands, and heart-breaking partings, and then — everlasting farewells!
Page 157 - ... issue. I, as is usual in dreams (where of necessity we make ourselves central to every movement), had the power, and yet had not the power to decide it. I had the power, if I could raise myself to will it, and yet, again, had not the power ; for the weight of twenty Atlantics was upon me, or the oppression of inexpiable guilt. ' Deeper than ever plummet sounded,
Page 122 - Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world : Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight and famine, plague and earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music centred in a doleful song Steaming up, a lamentation and an ancient tale of wrong, Like a tale of little meaning tho...
Page 121 - Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
Page 383 - Whence you ought to know that the bishop is in the Church, and the Church in the bishop...
Page 157 - The dream commenced with a music which now I often heard in dreams — a music of preparation and of awakening suspense, a music like the opening of the Coronation Anthem, and which, like that, gave the feeling of a vast march, of infinite cavalcades filing off, and the tread of innumerable armies.
Page 43 - But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God : and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.