Constantinople and Its Environs, Volume 2Harper & brothers, 1835 - Istanbul (Turkey) |
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Agha Ali Pacha ancient appearance Arcadius archbishop Armenian Catholic bachy beautiful boat Bosphorus built called capital Cara cause chief Christian church of St cistern column Constantinople Cyzicum dance dogs dress empire Franks Galata gate give grand vizier Greek Halil handsome hill holy honour hundred Hushreff Hussein Pacha immense imperial inhabitants inscriptions island Izet Mehmed Pacha janizaries Jews Justinian kiosk ladies land look magnificent Mahomet ment military ministers mosque mosque of Sultan nation never object occasion occupied officers orders Ottoman palace party pass Pera Perote persons piasters priests Prinkipo quarter rank rayahs residence respect rich Roger de Flor ruins Saint Stephano scarcely Scutary Sea of Marmora seen Selim Selim Mehmed seraff seraglio seraskier side Sophia sovereign street Sublime Porte Sultan thing thousand tion tower town troops turgemans Turkish Turks ulemas village Wallachia walls white marble women young
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Page 150 - Above it stood the Seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
Page 150 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 166 - The Jews say, The Christians are grounded on nothing ; and the Christians say, The Jews are grounded on nothing ; yet they both read the scriptures. So likewise say they who know not the scripture, according to their saying. But God shall judge between them on the day of the resurrection, concerning that about which they now disagree.
Page 155 - Men shall have the pre-eminence above women, because of those advantages wherein GOD hath caused the one of them to excel the other,4 and for that which they expend of their substance in maintaining their wives. The honest women are obedient, careful in the absence of their husbands,5 for that GOD preserveth them, by committing them to the care and protection of the men.
Page 85 - Glory be to God, who hath thought me worthy to accomplish so great a work; I have vanquished thee, O Solomon!
Page 78 - To reprove the incredulous monk, the fish did spring from the pan, into a vessel of water which stood near, and swam about as if they had never been taken out of it. In commemoration of this miracle, a church was erected over the spot, containing a reservoir of water, into which the fish, which still continued alive, were placed. The twenty-ninth of April was appointed, in the Greek Calendar, as a festival to commemorate the circumstance ; and a vast concourse of people used to assemble here on every...
Page 56 - This column was erected on a pedestal of white marble twenty feet high, and was composed of ten pieces of porphyry, each of which measured about ten feet in height, and about thirty-three in circumference.
Page 92 - Imperial Caesar, dead and turned to clay, May stop a hole to keep the wind away...
Page 78 - ... who, it seems, were not molested by his army. On the day of the decisive attack, a Monk was frying some fish, when news was suddenly brought to the convent, that the Turks had entered the town, through the breach in the walls. ' I would as soon believe,' said he, ' that these fried fish would spring from the pan, and become again alive.
Page 10 - He has therefore, no society, no smiles, no courtesies for or from any one. Wrapped up in his notions of his own dignity, and the means of preserving it, he shuts himself up from all around him. He stands alone, without the friendship or sympathy of one on board ; a solitary being in the midst of the ocean.