...is made a prefect; and the prime minister comes down to be a foot-boy. The Ottomans have no system of promotion and no hierarchy. From a cavalry offic... .... In buying a practice without clients, Desroches began, as it were, a new dynasty. This circumstance made a break in the usages relative to the recep... ...the command of the National guard, Oscar Husson, whose devotion to the new dynasty amounted to fanaticism, was appointed major of a regiment sent to A...

...m 1804 to 1814 was supposed to be devoted to the interests of the Napoleon dynasty, notwithstanding the title of baron which Louis XVIII. had just gra... ...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...

...lora’s dressing- case on the table, and some dresses lying on the sofa and ottoman. Mary ran up to them eagerly, and exclaimed at the beauti- ful shot... ...to sleep through the sermon. To say that Dr. May never slept under the new dynasty would be an over-statement, but slumber certainly prevailed in the ... ...Propagation of the Gospel had been few and far between; but, under the new dynasty, there was a talk of forming an associa- tion, and having a meeting...

...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,... ... the outskirts of the kingdom.” Evidently the Marquis doubted the reigning dynasty. Mlle. d’Esgrignon was trying to reassure her brother as to the pro... ...oyal mind so much that his nobility was like to be forgotten. The restored dynasty, moreover, was surrounded by triple ranks of eligible old men and g...

...fferent. The elective constitution of the empire, the fre- quent change of dynasty, the many disputed successions, had combined to render the sovereig... ...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...

... far otherwise in things political, that no instance can be alleged of any dynasty or system of govern- ment that has endured beyond a century or two ... ...beyond a century or two in the East. Taking India in particular, the Mogul dynasty, established by Baber, the great-grandson of Timour, did not subsis... ...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... ... early crusades), about the time when Jenghiz had overthrown the Seljukian dynasty. His son Osman first assumed the title of Sultan; and, in 1300, hav... ...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...

...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... ... of this that I would say if Germany by some swift convulsion expelled her dynasty and turned herself into a republic, it would be impossible for the ... ...many on every front and to retard her economic and financial recovery. The dynasty will lose prestige gradually, the true story of the war will creep ... ...ort of strong journalists, journalists of the Harden type for example. The dynasty tends to become degenerate, so that the probability of either some ...

...g these to become no better than a modern drawing room, with its divans, and ottomans, and sunshades, and a hun dred other oriental things, which we ... ...our homage, when you have done reverence to the prostrate Saturn of an older dynasty on stepping over the sill; a cavernous house, wherein you must re... ...of its mounds to peel the stick. Before he had given it the proper shape the dynasty of the Candahars was at an end, and with the point of the stick h...

...f Olym- pian records, knew this, at least, for certain, that more than one dynasty of gods had passed over the golden stage of Olympus, had made their... ...n the Greek lan- guage, on which, as the natural language of the new Greek dynasty in Egypt, the duty of the translation devolved, en- joyed a double ... ...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...

...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,... ...failure in decision, which trails revolution in its wake. He has ended one dynasty al- ready. The British royal family owes it to itself, that he brin...

... of the Egyptian army was stopped—the menaced empire of 19 Burlesques the Ottomans was saved from ruin; the Marchioness of Stokepogis, our ambassador... ...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 ... ...e, and raising their hands to the ceiling, swore eternal fi- delity to the dynasty and to France, and embraced each other affectingly all round. It ne... ...s had little effect upon an apathetic people; and the enemy of the Orleans dynasty, the fashionable young nobles of the Henriquinquiste party, wore gl... ...te monarch; and finally, the original edition, bound heart and soul to the dynasty of July. The poor editor, who had to write all three, complained no...