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].

  • Hill, Aaron, 1685-1750.
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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    And Plows with pureinduftrious Hand, With his own Steers his Father's Land, The C rown of his Defires. No ftorms of War his Peace can fhake, Vnmov'd lie fees the Billows break And mocks the Oceans frown, He fhuns all Courts where Lawyers are, Difdains the haughty Grandeur there, Contented with his own. BY what has been already faid, the Reader may conceive with eafte, the utmoll altitude of 7 arkijh Learning ; I fhall now proceed in the enftuino Chapter, to inform him of the Morals of thofe mighty People. C H A P. X. Of tbe Turkifh Morals. f'i H E Reader can expe£f no elevated Notions of refin’d Morality, from fitch as live on others Mifery, and owe the Grandeur of their lofty Fortune to the bloody Ruin of invaded Nations, yet All Men by as Natures Di&ates; and the common Leffons of a mild Huma- Nature, more nity, excite Mankind to do the Juft ice they again exped, fo have the taught M^ra- Turks, in the laft Age, been more refin’d than formerly they were, by fre- lity. quent Converfe with the Chriftian Nations, which their extended Con- quefts made their Neighbours. Some hr it ifb STRANGELY do the Charaders which all our Travellers have Travellers given the Turks, miftake their Nature, fome Ingenious Gentlemen the !herSerd N“tiws of Great Britain, have thought fit to fpeak thofe People noble Ma¬ ilers of a fpotlefs Vertue, and defcribe them failing in a Sea of Glory, la¬ den richly with the golden Notions of Morality and WiJ'dom, which diftin- guifh’d anciently the Great Inhabitants of the Countries they have con- quer’dv Others have OTHERS, lefts obliging, but alike miftaken, byafs’d by the Follies of a detracted fond Partiality, allow them owners of not one commendable or vertuous rea] Merits. Pr<1<'^ce? but defcribe their Natures wholly funk in dull Stupidity, and univerftally inclin’d to Miftchieft and Iniquity. a Medium THESE Extreams are both to be rejeded, and a model! Medium cho- and the near- fen t0 dlved: us> we then difcover that the fame variety of Humour and eft Truth. Morality, now reigns in Turkey, that is found in Chriftendom, and that the numerous Mahometans are like our ftelves divided into Good and Bad, accor¬ ding to the Lelfons of their different Educations, or the contrary Impulles of a vicious Soul, or one infpir’d with a fublime and generous love of Vertue. NOT