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.

  • Hill, Aaron, 1685-1750.
Date:
1709
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    tant Bufinefs of his Embaffy, were juch, as Won him fo Uncommon <3 fRpfpett, from all the Turkifh Minifters of State, that under the Exteniive Um¬ brage of his Intereft, any A4an, who toof upon him the Protective bhfame of Englifhman, was jure to meet, in every Part of their Dominions, more Civilities, and Toleration, than the Chriftian Travellers, of any other Country whatfoever, con'd pretend to hope for. H E fAf C E a Thoufand Marks of Favour Were Confer rd, at feveral Times, on many of our Countrymen, and hence 1 frate Ed the Lucky Opportunity of Seeing, with fome other Englifh Travellers, at the Year One Thoufand Seven Hundred and Two, the Cfreat Seraglio at Con- ftantinople, fo much farther, than had been before permitted; Yhe Grand Signior being then at A- drianople, and his Ladies with him., at his Palace in that City. . ' ’ \ \ • i i s « . 4 | 1 V > 9 n TV iC - .I » I have little now to add, but that I wilh With all my Heart, the Reader cou’d be promis'd a fufficient Share of Satisfaction, in the‘Perufine, the fucceeding Sheets, to make Atonement for the Tedious Time, the Book has been ex- petted. Malice is fo very Prevalent, and every Man fo naturally apt, to put the Worft Con- , • , ; , • r ■ \ ftruCtion on another’s Actions, that there are but