The History of the Turkish, Or Ottoman Empire: From Its Foundation in 1300, to the Peace of Belgrade in 1740, Հատոր 1R. Thorn, 1787 A translation of a work by a French abbot. Mignot had access to the French king's foreign affairs documents and included an account owned by Voltaire of Charles XII's reception in Turkey. Mignot, not fluent in any Turkic language, relied upon translations as well as the French sources. |
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Արդյունքներ 99–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
Էջ iv
... fame interefts , paffions , crimes , ta- lents , and virtues , as influence every other part of the globe . WHEN it fhall be known that I am ignorant of the oriental languages , my undertaking perhaps will be thought prefumptuous . As ...
... fame interefts , paffions , crimes , ta- lents , and virtues , as influence every other part of the globe . WHEN it fhall be known that I am ignorant of the oriental languages , my undertaking perhaps will be thought prefumptuous . As ...
Էջ viii
... fame hand , nor at the fame time . The dif- order and inequality which reign throughout , and the perpetual medley of maxims and facts which oppose one another , prove that different circumftances and neceffities were the occafion of ...
... fame hand , nor at the fame time . The dif- order and inequality which reign throughout , and the perpetual medley of maxims and facts which oppose one another , prove that different circumftances and neceffities were the occafion of ...
Էջ viii
... fame time each feventy - two different lan- guages ; a celeftial fpirit in the human form of fuch a prodigious fize , that the distance from one eye to the other was ninety days journey ; a cock , whofe feet rested on the fecond Heaven ...
... fame time each feventy - two different lan- guages ; a celeftial fpirit in the human form of fuch a prodigious fize , that the distance from one eye to the other was ninety days journey ; a cock , whofe feet rested on the fecond Heaven ...
Էջ ix
... fame hand . The blind zeal with which his fol- lowers devoted themselves to him raifed up the hatred of the Mecchefe , who faw , with terror , a monarchy raifing among them on the foun-- dation of fanaticifm : they attempted the life of ...
... fame hand . The blind zeal with which his fol- lowers devoted themselves to him raifed up the hatred of the Mecchefe , who faw , with terror , a monarchy raifing among them on the foun-- dation of fanaticifm : they attempted the life of ...
Էջ xiii
... lawful wives , or of concubines , are equally legitimate , and inherit all the fame . The girls however have only half the portion of the boys . 1 of himself , that the Mahometan women are in- debted ON MAHOMET , & c . 1 ...
... lawful wives , or of concubines , are equally legitimate , and inherit all the fame . The girls however have only half the portion of the boys . 1 of himself , that the Mahometan women are in- debted ON MAHOMET , & c . 1 ...
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The History of the Turkish, Or Ottoman Empire,: From Its Foundation ..., Հատոր 1 Vincent Mignot Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1787 |
The History of the Turkish, Or Ottoman Empire: From Its Foundation ..., Հատոր 1 Vincent Mignot Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1787 |
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