Sketches of Army Life in RussiaW.H. Allen, 1881 - 326 páginas |
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Página 291 - Britain; and that those interests are deeply engaged in preventing the disruption of the Turkish Empire is a conviction which I share in common with the most eminent statesmen who have directed our foreign policy, but which appears now to be abandoned by shallow politicians, or persons who have allowed their feelings of revolted humanity to make them forget the capital interests involved in the question.
Página 259 - It was not, however, until the end of the seventeenth century that the Turks ever formally ratified any cession of territory.
Página 318 - Empire are a matter of common interest. The general effect of this portion of the Treaty will be to increase the power of the Russian Empire in the countries and on the shores where a Greek population predominates, not only to the prejudice of that nation, but also of every country having interests in the East of the Mediterranean Sea.
Página 267 - November 3, 1839, begins by reciting that "all the world knows that in the first days of the Ottoman monarchy, the glorious precepts of the Koran and the laws of the Empire were always honored.
Página 299 - which is accomplished at this very hour, which changes a form of Government which has endured for six hundred years. The Constitution which his Majesty the Sultan has bestowed upon his Empire is promulgated. It inaugurates a new era for the happiness and prosperity of his people.
Página 317 - The provisions by which this new State is to be subjected to a ruler whom Russia will practically choose, its Administration framed by a Russian Commissary, and the first working of its institutions commenced under the control of a Russian army, sufficiently indicate the political system of which in future it is to form a part.
Página 292 - We have been upholding what we know to be a semi-civilized nation, liable under certain circumstances to be carried into fearful excesses; but the fact of this having just now been strikingly...