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...vers, umma, began to encompass ethnicities beyond the Arabs themselves. The first non-Arabs to accept Islam in large numbers were the Persians, whose empire the Arab forces defeated in a series of battles between 637-651. ...

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... Nationality and Religion: Three Observation from Omer Seyfettin Central Asian Survey (Oxford) Vol. 3, No. 3, 1985 Koprulu/Veles (Yugoslavia) Ottoman Garrison's Response to the 1909 Recidivist Uprising in Istanbul: From the Memoirs of Omer Seyfettin Turkistan Newsletter Vol. 97-1:18a, 2 July 1997 Happy Meleagris Gallopavo Day Journal of American Studies of Tu...

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...that successfully fought against the main threat for the existence of Romanian provinces (Walachia, Transylvania, Moldavia) during the centuries: the Ottoman Empire. Since the end of XIII century until the beginning of XX century (1922), the Ottoman Empire represented great administrative and military force in the world, developing its domination from Middle Orient, Elbrus...

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...A classic of victorian travel writing, Kinglake’s book describes his journey through the Ottoman empire to Cairo, and his residence there in time of plague. [Summary by hefyd]...

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...hat Byron completed in the year before his death at the age of 36 in Messolonghi, Greece, where he had gone to fight for the nationalists against the Ottoman Empire. Juan, now in England, is invited to spend the autumn with a hunting party at the ancient country seat of Lord Henry and Lady Adeline Amundeville. There, he meets the most intriguing of the Byronic heroines, Au...

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...e pioneers of modern Hebrew literature. Born to a poor family, Brenner grew up in grinding poverty. Brenner immigrated to Palestine (then part of the Ottoman Empire) in 1909. He worked as a farmer, eager to put his Zionist ideology into practice. Later he devoted himself to literature and teaching at the Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv. He was murdered in southern Tel Aviv i...

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... (1589) is an original story of religious conflict, intrigue, and revenge, set against a backdrop of the struggle for supremacy between Spain and the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean. The Jew of Malta is considered to have been a major influence on William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice . The play contains a prologue in which the character Machiavel, a Senecan gho...

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...he pioneers of modern Hebrew literature. Born to a poor family, Brenner grew up in grinding povery. Brenner immigrated to Palestine (then part of the Ottoman Empire) in 1909. He worked as a farmer, eager to put his Zionist idelogy into practice. Later he devoted himself to literature and teaching at the Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv. He was murdered in southern Tel Aviv in...

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...ervice of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important primary historical resource for the study of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the Armenian Genocide. During this genocide, approximately 1,500,000 Armenians living in Anatolia were murdered in an attempt to rid Turkey of its non-Turkish populations. Mr. Morgenthau left Turkey a frust...

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...ims. They were not headed for Canterbury, Rome or Jerusalem. Rather, they were headed for an historical but remote prison-city in a far corner of the Ottoman Empire. ‘Akká (Akko), now a city in Israel which attracts thousands of Bahá’í pilgrims each year, was but little thought of in that early period. It was originally the final place of exile and imprisonment for Bahá’u’...

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...ing was not allowed by the British government to address the British people and the Empire through the BBC. The government's constitutional expe... ...rished. The Armenians were also raided by Kurdish tribesmen on a regular basis. An Ottoman military tribunal, convened between 1919-21, even convic... ... to cease its mistreatment of the Armenians. This intervention was resented by the Ottoman authorities. By 1915, Armenian calls for autonomy were d... ...n the war - prevented the Turks for deporting the urban Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire's major cities. Today there are less than 60,000 ... ...r - prevented the Turks for deporting the urban Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire's major cities. Today there are less than 60,000 Armenian... ...95 million people), India (131 million), Russia (33 million), France (27 million), Ottoman Empire (21 million), Germany (14 million), Spain (11 mil... ...on people), India (131 million), Russia (33 million), France (27 million), Ottoman Empire (21 million), Germany (14 million), Spain (11 million), B... ...xecuted 40 Senators for treason. Nero even helped the Jews - a scourge of the Roman empire - and rehabilitated disaster-stricken cities. But the... ... appeared as an actor, lyre player and charioteer in religious dramas all over the empire, sometimes absent from Rome for as long as 15 months at a...

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... United States III. Islam and Liberalism IV. The New Rome - America, the Reluctant Empire V. The Democratic Ideal and New Colonialism VI. Add Me t... ...ericanism By: Dr. Sam Vaknin The United States is one of the last remaining land empires. That it is made the butt of opprobrium and odium is har... ...it is made the butt of opprobrium and odium is hardly surprising, or unprecedented. Empires - Rome, the British, the Ottomans - were always targeted... ...and odium is hardly surprising, or unprecedented. Empires - Rome, the British, the Ottomans - were always targeted by the disgruntled, the disenfra... ...ty emerges. Also Read: The Semi-failed State The Second Civil War The Reluctant Empire To Give with Grace In God We Trust The Sergeant and the Gi... ...o rampant mercenaries, erstwhile "allies" turned bitter enemies. At its peak, the Ottoman Empire ruled most of the Balkan, up to the very gates of... ...Africa including Algeria, and most of the Arab Peninsula. It lasted 600 years. The Ottomans invaded Europe while still serving as a proxy army of m... ...des of the twentieth century. Not unlike the Moslem Afghani warriors of 1989, the Ottomans, too, turned on their benefactors and brought on the de... ...mise of Byzantium after 1000 years of uninterrupted existence as a superpower. The Ottomans were named after Osman I, the Oguz (Turkmen) tribal lea...

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...o so, the Turks disembowelled him to death and decapitated the writhing rump. The Ottomans granted independence to Bulgaria in the 1878 Treaty of ... ...gn powers in foreign-run and owned schools. Then they set about a typical infandous Ottoman orgy of shredded entrails, gang raped corpses of young g... ...ants. Further confusion awaited. In 1897, following the Crete uprising against the Ottoman rule and in favour of Greek enosis (unification), Turkey... ...posed to these atrocities, the more one is prone to subscribe to the view that the Ottoman Empire - its halting and half hearted efforts at reform ... ...o these atrocities, the more one is prone to subscribe to the view that the Ottoman Empire - its halting and half hearted efforts at reform notwiths... ...... Resen (Resana). Let it be clear: this author harbours no sympathy towards the Ottoman Empire. The IMRO was fighting for lofty ideals (Balkania... ...n (Resana). Let it be clear: this author harbours no sympathy towards the Ottoman Empire. The IMRO was fighting for lofty ideals (Balkanian federa... ...acedonia-born officer Ataturk. And it facilitated the disintegration of the Ottoman empire - thus, ironically, leading to the independence of almost... ...no less - if not more - than any other nation to the re-distribution of the Ottoman Empire. The cynicism, the hypocrisy, the off-handedness, the ign...

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...ventionalist of ’93, who said to Napoleon, in 1814, ‘You bend because your empire is a young stem, weakened by rapid growth. Take the Republic for a t... ...ved the determination of providence to effect the entire ruin of the Roman empire, sullied by so many crimes. Brunehilde and Fredegonde were the resul... ...Yanina. Will you believe the government of a re- public, a kingdom, and an empire?” Albert cast his eyes on the pass- port, then raised them in astoni... ...pale brow. He then entered the room. Madame de Villefort was sitting on an ottoman and impatiently turning over the leaves of some newspa- pers and pa... ...les, the younger sister of Tyre and Carthage, the successor to them in the empire of the Mediterranean, — Marseilles, old, yet always young. Powerful ...

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...s. The time could only be before the taming and bringing into order of the empire, when the Imperial cities were in their greatest splendour, the last... ...ined power like his descendants. We forget that the head of the Holy Roman Empire had been, ever since the extinction of the Swabian line, a mere mark... ...erywhere under his nominal rule. It was in the time of Maximilian that the Empire became as compact and united a body as could be hoped of anything so... ...powers was wonderful. He was learned in many languages—in all those of his empire or hereditary states, and in many besides; and he had an ardent love... ...he head of the Church, and a mere huntsman like himself at the head of the Empire.” His bon-mots are numerous, all thoroughly characteristic, and show... ...e Christian nations on the 228 The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest skirts of the Ottoman empire might be made our allies, and attack the Turk in his rear. I... ...ade to each of the captives, if they would become Moslems, of entering the Ottoman service as Spahis; but with one voice they had refused, and had the...

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...ammer-Purgstall, Member of the Aulic Council, Author of the History of the Ottoman Empire. Dear Baron,—Y ou have taken so warm an interest in my long,... ...rgstall, Member of the Aulic Council, Author of the History of the Ottoman Empire. Dear Baron,—Y ou have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast “H... ...ces with the up- start families. All those who cast in their lots with the Empire retrieved their fortunes and recovered their estates, thanks to the ... ...explanations which depict one side of provin- cial life in the time of the Empire and the Restoration, it would not be easy to understand the opening ... ...ities greenhouse. But for that hobby he would have been a deputy under the Empire, and shone conspicuous beyond a doubt in the Corps Legislatif. His m...

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...elf to be deceived by certain chroniclers, since the archives of the Roman Empire make no mention of an acquisition of this kind. I am angry with him ... ...n his domain as happy as a prince who is happy, reconnoitering his immense empire of mustard, coun- tries of sugar, provinces of ham, duchies of raisi... ...nd placed him on the door the granary, after the 84 Balzac fashion of the Ottoman Porte, where my good Panurge was within an ace of being spitted. At... ...g as en- tertainment many foreign dialects, such as the Greek or the Latin empire, Moorish, and, above all, French better than any of those who knew t...

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... first, under the magnanimous King of Denmark, during his wars against the Empire; afterwards under the invincible King of Sweden, during his Majestie... ... the meeting of Chiefs resembled not a little those an- cient Diets of the Empire, where the smallest frey-graf, who possessed a castle perched upon a... ...eign prince, and a seat according to his rank among the dignitaries of the Empire. The followers of the different leaders were separately ar- ranged a... ...he King of Sweden, and, after his example, even the haughty Princes of the Empire, had found themselves fain, frequently to compound with their dignit... ...you—I learned the art from a Polonian heyduck, who had been a slave in the Ottoman seraglio—and then seek out a mode of retreat.” “Villain! you would ...

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... people; and his ideal of a fine showy clever rule was that of the superseded Empire. “Paris is much less attractive than in the days of the Emperor; h... ... want, and there’ll be a dark cloud over Paris, our Paris, till they get the Empire back again.” Among Mrs. Luce’s visitors on Sunday afternoons was a... ... in it—you can’t do anything in London. No Louis Quinze—nothing of the First Empire; nothing but their eternal Queen Anne. It’s good for one’s bed roo... ...been general, but after a while Osmond left his place and came and sat on an ottoman half behind, half beside Madame Merle’s chair: “She wants me to g... ...already with Osmond, to inspect the furniture, which was of the First French Empire, and especially to ad mire the clock (which he didn’t really admi... ...y. “Yes—I like you.” They had walked to the chimney piece where the big cold Empire clock was perched; they were well within the room and beyond obser... ...buted then to the facility. Edward Rosier had meanwhile seated himself on an ottoman beside Pansy’s tea table. He pretended at first to talk to her abo...

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..., and invaded Belgium because Germany was being attacked. The Krupp-Kaiser Empire, he assures us, is no eagle, but a double-headed lamb, resisting the... ... a world peace will be staggered at any proposal to place any part of “our Empire” under a world administration on the footing of a United States terr... ...e main war. Whatever surprises or changes this last phase of the East- ern Empire, that blood-clotted melodrama, may involve, they will but assist and... ...eprivation still only very vaguely imag- ined. What happens in the Turkish Empire or India or America or elsewhere may extend the areas of waste and a... ... than she takes out. Compared with the world behind the Allies the Turkish Empire is a country of mountains, desert and undeveloped lands. T o develop... ...e trend of events in Asia Minor, the break- ing up and decapitation of the Ottoman Empire and the Euphrates invasion, points to a great revival of Mes...

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...ny ways give to herself, must feel that she has her own separate domain of empire unaffected by the most sov- ereign beauty upon earth. Every man that... ... from their want of public journals, combined with territorial grandeur of empire. The greatest possible defect of harmony arises naturally in this wa... ... revolu- tion variable and advancing under the vast varieties of the Roman empire. Having no newspapers to effect a level amongst the inequalities and... ... centuries, were popularly be- lieved, in the latest period of the Western empire, to exist as so many charters of supremacy. Jupiter himself in Rome ... ...haps the reader will thank us for rehears- ing the main steps by which the Ottoman power had flowed and ebbed. The foundations of this empire were lai... ...inople, put an end to the Roman empire; and before his death he placed the Ottoman power in Europe pretty nearly on that basis to which it had again f... ...George came forward as the asserter of Servian independence, and drove the Ottomans out of that prov- ince. Personally he was not finally successful. ... ...een partially kept alive by the existence of a native militia, to whom the Ottoman government, out of mere necessity, had commit- ted the local defenc... ...ke; next a cannonade announcing the approach of the Pacha; and, lastly, an Ottoman brig of war, which saluted the fort and cast anchor before the town...

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...distinct stories of that order, in any solitary frontier between two great empires, as here, for in- stance, or in the desert between Syria and the Eu... ... some the garrets, was really the drawing- room, and the box was the chief ottoman or sofa in that draw- ing-room; whilst it appeared that the inside,... ... York, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Perth, Glasgow—expressing the grandeur of the empire by the antiquity of its towns, and the grandeur of the mail establis... ...ch it ministers, by the commerce which it supports, by the grandeur of the empire in which, though far from the largest, it is the most influential st... ...oorer, could not in the Pagan era support the expense of maintaining great empires in cold latitudes. Her purse would not reach that cost. Wherever sh... ...t well!) from the republican era. The aulic spirit was propa- gated by the Empire, but from a republican root. Having paid his court, you will suppose...

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...s into Parisian society. The widow had known something of the Paris of the Empire, she now desired to shine in the Paris of the Restoration. There alo... ...part,” thought he, “and that is no small merit in a woman. How many of the Empire men I’ve seen who suffered horribly through their wives! It is a gre... ...early period yield to the tyranny of his wife, instead of establishing his empire? Could Paul say , “No?” All was peril to a man so weak where even a ... ...ormer Times and the Present Day,” which had such eminent success under the Empire. If Madame and Mademoiselle Evangelista to whom the “good Monsieur M... .... Shocked to see his client’s joy at this proposal, Mathias sat down on an ottoman, his head in his hands, plunged in re- flections that were evidentl... ... as I see fit,” replied the other. Solonet turned away and sat down on the ottoman, saying, in a low voice, to Madame Evangelista:— “You will now hear... ...ily woman who had lowered herself to this conspiracy; he would destroy the empire she had conquered over her son-in-law! Feeble natures, once warned, ...

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...rity, prac- tically taking over the sovereignty of the existing states and empires of the world. Most people’s ideas of the League fall between these ... ...tates and see to what this leads us. We find our list includes the British Empire, with a population of four hundred millions, of which probably half ... ...f equal representation between such “powers” is enough to make the British Empire burst into a thousand (voting) frag- ments. A certain concession to ... ...re that three or four minute and backward states could outvote the British Empire or the United States. Therein lies the clue to the insignificance of... ...0 In the Fourth Year number it is) men to whom we are going to entrust our Empire’s share in this great task of the peace negotiations, it will be mor... ...urs turn their backs with an equal resolution, and that is the fate of the Ottoman Empire. What in plain English are we up to there? Whatever happens,...

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...In this moving poem, Byron recounts the final, desperate resistance of the Venetians on the day the Ottoman army stormed Acrocorinth: revealing the closing scenes of the conflict through the eyes of Lanciotto - a Venetian renegade fighting for the Ottomans - and Francesca - the beautiful maiden daughter of the governor of t...

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...Excerpt: The incident recorded in this sketch took place towards the end of the month of November, 1809, the moment when Napoleon?s fugitive empire attained the apogee of its splendor. The trumpet-blasts of Wagram were still sounding an echo in the heart of the Austrian monarchy. Peace was being signed between France and the Coalition. Kings and princes came to pe...

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...he end of the month of November, 1809, the moment when Napoleon’s fugitive empire attained the apogee of its splen- dor. The trumpet-blasts of Wagram ... ...wing-rooms of Paris. Intoxication seemed to have turned the brains of this Empire of a day. All the military, not ex- cepting their chief, reveled lik... ...erhaps all these reasons, which the future historian of the manners of the Empire will no doubt amuse himself by weighing, counted for something in th... ...rance, with an eye to favors to come, the most important personages of the Empire, and even a few princes, were at this hour assembled in the wealthy ... ...iches, challenged the splen- dor of the generals and high officials of the Empire, so re- cently gorged with orders, titles, and honors. These grand b... ...oubt assured herself that they could be seen, for she seated herself on an ottoman with a fairly good grace. “This room is charming,” said she, admiri...

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...Institute rose in South Kensington, and Joseph Chamberlain was booming the Empire, I induced the editor of a lead- ing monthly review to commission an... ... and little tables and nicknacks. In the middle of the room there is a big ottoman; and this, with the carpet, the Morris wall-papers, and the Morris ... ...ll-papers, and the Morris chintz window curtains and brocade covers of the ottoman and its cushions, supply all the ornament, and are much too handsom... ...ir]. MRS. EYNSFORD HILL [a little bewildered] Not at all. [She sits on the ottoman between her daughter and Mrs. Higgins, who has turned her chair awa... ...e of it. 47 Shaw HIGGINS. Well, here we are, anyhow! [He sits down on the ottoman next Mrs. Eynsford Hill, on her left]. And now, what the devil are ... ...oolittle. I remember your eyes. LIZA. How do you do? [She sits down on the ottoman grace- fully in the place just left vacant by Higgins]. MRS. EYNSFO...

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... serpent vitality, a continual succession of parti-colored fires. Some few ottomans and golden candelabra, of Eastern fig- 178 Poe in Five V olumes u... ...emaciated countenance. I sat by the side of her ebony bed, upon one of the ottomans of India. She partly arose, and spoke, in an earnest low whisper, ... ...ally recovered, however, and took the vessel herself, while I sank upon an ottoman near me, with my eyes fastened upon her person. It was then that I ... ... long ceased to struggle or to move, and remained sitting rigidly upon the ottoman, a helpless prey to a whirl of violent emotions, of which extreme a... ...ow then that in these dominions I am monarch, and here rule with undivided empire under the title of ‘King Pest the First.’ “This apartment, which you...

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...ng requires another to find a given word—the name of town, river, state or empire—any word, in short, upon the motley and perplexed surface of the cha... ...ive daily instructions in the science of geom- etry to the wise men of the empire. The king of the place hav- ing offered a reward for the solution of... ...he birds.’” * “Oh my!” said the king. “‘We had scarcely lost sight of this empire when we found ourselves close upon another, from whose shores there ... ... was of prodigious strength, so that it erected or overthrew the mightiest empires at a breath; but its powers were exercised equally for evil and for... ... as I entered the room, and throwing him- self back at full-length upon an ottoman. “I see,” said he, per- ceiving that I could not immediately reconc... ...he Orfeo,” (the first native Ital- ian tragedy,) which lay near me upon an ottoman, I discovered a passage underlined in pencil. It was a passage tow... ... confessing the power of the wine, he threw himself at full-length upon an ottoman. A quick step was now heard upon the staircase, and a loud knock at... ...isoned! Oh, beautiful—oh, beautiful Aphrodite !” Bewildered, I flew to the ottoman, and endeavored to arouse the sleeper to a sense of the startling i... ...tuition and a necessity. His family was one of the most illustrious of the empire. His bride was the loveliest and most devoted of women. His possessi...

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...ee; or measuring with their bodies, like caterpillars, the breadth of vast empires; or standing on one leg on the tops of pillars even these forms of... ...; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, ... ...ese to become no bet ter than a modern drawing room, with its divans, and ottomans, and sun shades, and a hundred other orien tal things, which we a... ...ed for the ladies of the harem and the effeminate natives of the Celestial Empire, which Jonathan should be ashamed to know the names of. I would rath... ... but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. Yet som... ... We think that we can change our clothes only. It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a firs...

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...others of this nature, are much rather marks of men striving for power and empire over one another than of the Church of Christ. Let anyone have never... ...nowledgment of another god, that is say, another king, against the laws of Empire. The inhabitants were also to be driven out, that the entire possess... ...ce to the Mufti of Constantinople, who himself is entirely obedient to the Ottoman Emperor and frames the feigned oracles of that religion accord ing...

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...rom a high doctrinal religion, let us seek an illustration from our Indian empire. The Christian missionaries from home, when first opening their view... ...nfluence for these parties, either dangerous to the supreme section of the empire, or else nugatory for each of themselves. It is a separate considera... ...he great and ancient settlements on the Nile, and on the other by the vast empire that for thousands of years occupied the Tigris and the Euphrates. I... ...lis in Egypt, and the silent advance to supreme power amongst men of a new empire, martial be- yond all precedent as regarded means, but not as regard... ...ched the salvation of the kindgom, since to accept an alliance with either empire, would be to insure the bitter hostility of the other. With that kno... ...the idea of a translation from the old western Rome, and overthrown by the Ottoman T urks in the year 1453. In the fortunes and main stages of this em...

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...accustomed to this variety of pistol practice; and that the autocrat of an empire huge beyond all other European countries, whose father had been torn... ...erished darling—my only son?” Cashel, who was now sitting beside her on an ottoman, groaned and moved restlessly, but said nothing. “Are you glad to s...

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...Marchioness herself) came to meet Emma. She made her sit down by her on an ottoman, and began talking to her as amicably as if she had known her a lon... ...nd Madame Bovary , senior, who was godmother, a romance of the time of the Empire; finally, 79 Flaubert M. Bovary , senior, insisted on having the ch...

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...hending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the union, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whe...

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...he safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been freq... ... themselves with fairer prospects of elevation from the subdivision of the empire into several partial con- federacies than from its union under one g... ...avigation and fleet—let those four of the constituent parts of the British empire be be under four inde- pendent governments, and it is easy to percei... ... well as the other inhabitants of the globe, are yet remote from the happy empire of perfect wisdom and perfect virtue? Let the point of extreme depre... ...n that quarter of the globe, is no longer a history of nations subdued and empires overturned, but of towns taken and retaken; of battles that decide ... ... sink into a fatal atrophy, and, in a short course of time, perish. In the Ottoman or T urkish empire, the sovereign, though in other respects absolut...

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...d 8 Arms and the Man by three chains. On the left, further forward, is an ottoman. The washstand, against the wall on the left, consists of an enamel... ...been a battle! RAINA (her eyes dilating). Ah! (She throws the cloak on the ottoman, and comes eagerly to Catherine in her nightgown, a pretty garment,... ...tatically) Oh, mother, mother, mother! (Raina pulls her mother down on the ottoman; and they kiss one another frantically.) CATHERINE (with surging en... ...tches her, and adds, pitilessly) It’s rather scanty, eh? (She turns to the ottoman. He raises his pistol instantly, and cries) Stop! (She stops.) Wher... ...RAINA (with dignified patience). Only to get my cloak. MAN (darting to the ottoman and snatching the cloak). A good idea. No: I’ll keep the cloak: and... ... in the least, my dear. But I should have had to subdue the whole Austrian Empire first; and that would have kept me too long away from you. I missed ...

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...se have I searched through all the Herald’s Books, in and without the German Empire, and through all manner of Subscriber Lists ( Pr¨ anumeranten), Mi... ... have all Eternity to rest in?’ Celestial Nepenthe! though a Pyrrhus conquer empires, and an Alexander sack the world, he finds thee not; and thou hast... ...ies there were in me to give battle, in some small degree, against the great Empire of Darkness: does not the very Ditcher and Delver, with his spade,... ... one announces himself, I doubt not, there runs a shudder through the Nether Empire; and new Emissaries are trained, with new tactics, to, if possible... ...y the wisest Soul lies a whole world of internal Madness, an authentic Demon Empire; out of which, indeed, his world of Wisdom has been creatively bui... ...“ ‘A Dressing room splendidly furnished; violet colored curtains, chairs and ottomans of the same hue. Two full length Mirrors are placed, one on each...

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...s of Christendom. Indeed, whether on carpets, or curtains, or tapestry, or ottoman cov- erings, all upholstery of this nature should be rigidly Arabes... ... of the world. I say established; for it is with literature as with law or empire-an established name is an es- tate in tenure, or a throne in possess... ...eye; And here, in thought, to thee— In thought that can alone Ascend thy empire and so be A partner of thy throne— Among Milton’s poems are thes... ...e rush— The torrent of the chilly air Gurgled within my ear the crush Of empires—with the captive’s prayer— The hum of suiters—and the tone Of flatt... ...ho her sovereign? Timour—he Whom the astonished people saw Striding o’er empires haughtily A diadem’d outlaw— O! human love! thou spirit given, On...

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...victorious Ibrahim, the march of the Egyptian army was stopped—the menaced empire of 19 Burlesques the Ottomans was saved from ruin; the Marchioness ... ... of the Egyptian army was stopped—the menaced empire of 19 Burlesques the Ottomans was saved from ruin; the Marchioness of Stokepogis, our ambassador... ...t garden of Le Notre (from which Niblo’s garden has been copied in our own Empire city of New Y ork), and playing at leap-frog with their uncle, the C... ... in an Austrian accent; “is not my Royal Louis the first watchmaker in his empire?” The King cast a pleased glance at his repeater, and kissed with co... ...rd, who followed the royal pair, in his quality of arch-chamberlain of the empire, “I pray you look through the gardens, and tell his Excellency Docto... ...As thus:— “‘Lady Emily was reclining on one of Down and Eider’s voluptuous ottomans, the only couch on which Belgravian beauty now reposes, when Lord ... ...of the English East India Company would 152 Thackeray have established my empire (bah! it was a republic then!) in the East—but that the man before u...

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...in her clear full tone of assent. “Sit down.” She seated herself on a dark ottoman with the brown books behind her, looking in her plain dress of some... ...g us into the secret of usurpations and other scandals gossiped about long empires ago:—this world being apparently a huge whis- pering-gallery. Such ... ...g money are essentially the same, and that 601 George Eliot chance has an empire which reduces choice to a fool’s illu- sion—was but the symptom of a... ...orced to cross his small boundary ditch, and what he saw beyond it was not empire, but discon- tented subjection. But it is given to us sometimes even... ...th a certain awe. Dorothea sat down on the seat nearest to her, a long low ottoman in the middle of the room, and with her hands folded over each othe...

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...in her clear full tone of assent. “Sit down.” She seated herself on a dark ottoman with the brown books behind her, looking in her plain dress of some... ...g us into the secret of usurpations and other scandals gossiped about long empires ago:— this world being apparently a huge whispering gallery. Such c... ...all ways of getting money are essentially the same, and that chance has an empire which reduces choice to a fool’s illusion—was but the symptom of a w... ...orced to cross his small boundary ditch, and what he saw beyond it was not empire, but discontented subjection. But it is given to us sometimes even i... ...th a certain awe. Dorothea sat down on the seat nearest to her, a long low ottoman in the middle of the room, and with her hands folded over each othe...

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...eenly possessor La Bellissima, to the Duc De L ’Omelette, six peers of the empire conveyed the happy bird. That night the Duc was to sup alone. In the... ...s to sup alone. In the privacy of his bureau he reclined languidly on that ottoman for which he sac- rificed his loyalty in outbidding his king—the no... ...e howlings of the hopeless and the damned! And there, too!—there!—upon the ottoman!—who could he be?—he, the petitmaitre—no, the Deity—who sat as if c... ...essity and an intuition. His family was one of the most illustrious of the empire. His bride was the loveliest and most devoted of women. His possessi...

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...difference ze danger vreatening Russia and zat ze safety and dignity of ze Empire as vell as ze sanc- tity of its alliances...” he spoke this last wor... ...e valet came into the room with his coffee, Pierre was lying asleep on the ottoman with an open book in his hand. He woke up and looked round for a wh... ... is it meant to prove? What? I ask you.” Pierre turned over heavily on the ottoman and opened his mouth, but could not reply. “If you won’t answer, I’... ...ent in Russia, or a Revolution in France and a subsequent dictatorship and Empire, or all the things that 343 Tolstoy produced the French Revolution,... ...won’t have those splendid provinces. Y et he might have united them to his empire and in a single reign would have extended Russia from the Gulf of Bo... ...that we have been summoned here not to dis- cuss whether it’s best for the empire at the present mo- ment to adopt conscription or to call out the mil... ...id hear he understood that the Emperor spoke of the danger threatening the empire and of the hopes he placed on the Moscow nobility. He was answered b...

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...stitution that continued until 1924, first under Arab and eventually under Ottoman Turkish control. Many Muslims look back at the century after the re... ...n annual budget larger than the gross domestic product of Russia, it is an empire. The Defense Department is part civilian, part military .The civilia... ...nce of the Muslim world. Moghul India, Safavid Persia, and, above all, the Ottoman Empire were great Islamic powers that arose long after the Baghdad ... ...he Muslim world. Moghul India, Safavid Persia, and, above all, the Ottoman Empire were great Islamic powers that arose long after the Baghdad Caliphat...