A full and just account of the present state of the Ottoman Empire in all its branches; with the government, and policy, religion, customs, and way of living of the Turks in general ... from a serious observation, taken in many years travesl thro' those countries / [Aaron Hill].

  • Aaron Hill
Date:
1710
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Credit: A full and just account of the present state of the Ottoman Empire in all its branches; with the government, and policy, religion, customs, and way of living of the Turks in general ... from a serious observation, taken in many years travesl thro' those countries / [Aaron Hill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mr* Aaron Hill* ON HIS OTTOMAN EMPIRE- PARDON, Bright Youth, if I, Unworthy, raife In Lowly Verfe, a Monument of Praife. Heav’n, whofe Vaft Height can no New Glory gain, Accepts the Offering of the Meaneft Swain; And from thofe Stores of Life, beyond the Skie, Makes large Returns of Immortality. To yours, my Lines can no frefh Beauties give, And yet they may this Priviledge receive, To live, by you approv’d, fo long as Verfe can live. LANGUAGE Polite, and Wit, too much abus’d, In Wanton Tales, and Novels Chiefly Us’d, Are now Redeem’d by your fuccefsful Toyl, And bravely flourifh in a better Soil. Fictions no more Divert th’ Ingenious few, So Graceful Truth appears, Bedeck’d by you! SCORNING the Dull, tho’ moft frequented, Road, Fearlefs, you trace a Path, not often trod. For Authors now, Laborious to excell In Writing much, more than in Writing well. With Empty Words their Barren Volumes Swell. But you Each Polilh’d Page adorn with Thought: With Sinewy Senfe your e’ery Line is Wrought, And fuch Proportion thro’ the whole you keep, You never Vainly Soar, nor meanly Creep. Tho’ Various be your SubjeTs, hill we find Judgment full Grown, with Youthful Fancy joyn’d. THE Turk, Who revels in Luxurious Eale, And only thinks, how e’ery Senfe to pleafe; Amidft his Fav’rite Sweets, wou’d quickly Cloy, Cou’d he no Change, no new Delights enjoy, Amongfl: his Beauteous Slaves he Dallies now, Lafcivious Heats unbend his Haughty Brow ; Anon
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