Volume 1

A full and just account of the present state of the Ottoman Empire in all its brances: with the government, and policy, religion, customs, and way of living of the Turks, in general ... from a serious observations, taken in many years travels thro' those countries / By Aaron Hill.

  • Aaron Hill
Date:
1709
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Credit: A full and just account of the present state of the Ottoman Empire in all its brances: with the government, and policy, religion, customs, and way of living of the Turks, in general ... from a serious observations, taken in many years travels thro' those countries / By Aaron Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that can be put upon them ; we efteem a bending of the Body gracefull and obliging, thej interpret it a mean acknowledgement of our Inferiority to him we fpeak to ; they love Sad/refs and a grave Deportment, m love Gayety and brisknefs of Behaviour. Every thing in fhort is carryed on di- re&lv oppofite to both our Humours and our Cufioms ; whether one or t o- ther’s Airs of Breeding are the moft confident with that Native Majefty which Man was form’d with, mud: be judg’d by feveral Perfons, fever al Ways, and whether they or rve are right or wrong, we both believe, our own the worthieft Fafhion. For as the fam’d Athenian Solon has it in his Elegies. yAAXo; S'itKoi lui, a.yaQof J'okh t(/.y.iVcu ct Ketl kaKo! (J-o^nv * ’/AftiCtSAv tyuv. • *, * • The Cowards felf is brave in his own Eyes, And the mod: homely Wretch will his own Features prize. CHAP. XIII. Of tbeir Wives, Concubines, Wiys of Courtjhip, and Forms of Marriage. H E inimitable Virgil was undoubtedly infpir’d with Love I and Truth, when he aflerted this fo oft experienc’d Max- 1 im> Omnia vincit Amor, & ms cedamus Amori. 7Hi C] . Love conquers all things, to his Pow’r we yield, And proudly lofe the Day, when Beauty takes the Field. • The Power of THE roughed: Hero's of the ancient World, amidft the dufty Scenes of Love/ War and Ruin, red with Blood of undiftinguilh’d Slaughter, and encom- pafs’d round with Care and Danger, often llacken’d Nature’s Springs, and finking calmly from the love of Glory, let their Laurels wither on their Heads, and loft the Senfe of Honour and Renown, entirely ftupified in all their Faculties, and fiumbring meanly in the downy Scenes of this Le¬ thargic Paffion. How much EVEN the adamantine Breafts of Icy Scythia, have admitted Love in chat Paflion all its fervour, and forgot entirely native roughnefs, by die foftening among Ae18 Charms °f Female Conversation ; nay, to fuch excefs does that bewitching Turfa! Paffion now prevail among the Turks, that as if they were not the Pofierity ol fuch uneffeminate, and hardy Jncejlors, they frequently negledf the great Adairs of State and Intereft, to dally wantonly with favourite Women, and enjoy the lov’d and rapid Tranfports which attend on their Careffes. HEREIN