Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822. Excerpt: ... NOTE S. (1) At the time of Cromwell's Irish campaign, the Ottoman power was in its full vigour, and from thence advanced in the gradation of the capture of the Venetian islands in the Archipelago, the defeat of the Austrians in 1663, and the conquest of Candia in 1670, to that acm6 of their triumphs, the siege of Vienna, which was saved by Poland in 1683: of course not that Poland from whom Austria sliced off her provincial kingdom of Galitzia. The power of Mahomet the IVth was to the barbarous anarchy of Ireland in 1649, about what the power of George the IVth is to Turkey in 1822. (2) "The Lord Chancellor" answers, perhaps, more nearly than "the Chancellor of the Exchequer" to the Kislar Aga, or Chief of the black Eunuchs, who has with equal propriety, the gift of all the Grand Seignior's Crown Livings, the uncontrolled superintendence of the endless and enormous religious foundations throughout Turkey. The parallel between our Chancellors and the Kislar Aga must however end here. (3) I cannot suffer a second Edition to be published without expressing my regret that this sentence should have given offence to the kneaders of the nonsense. So fully was the misfortune of mingled fury and feebleness balanced by the merit of early zeal in the Grecian cause, and by martyrdom from the well-served batte Courier, that I cancelled my first expression," newspaper of the day," because I felt that it was", thing as saying " the Morning Chronicle," and _ feeling personality on a paper whose vigorous yot to procure it respect in its decrepitude, and wt offspring should be privileged to drivel by such a ancestry. Nay, I was so anxious that there shoi needless dissension even between us, between the significant and the most ridiculous of Grecian ad that I should have ex...
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