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H. Holt & Company, 1877 - Всего страниц: 495
 

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Стр. 156 - Since neither oaths, nor treaty, nor submission, can secure peace, pursue," said he to Mahomet, "your impious warfare. My trust is in God alone; if it should please him to mollify your heart, I shall rejoice in the happy change ; if he delivers the city into your hands I submit without a murmur to his holy will. But until the Judge of the earth shall pronounce between us, it is my duty to live and die in the defence of my people.
Стр. 475 - In all cases the forcible execution of the judgments, issued on the conditions determined heretofore, shall not take place without the cooperation of the consul or of his delegate. The Imperial government will enact a law which shall determine the rules of procedure to be observed by the parties, in the application of the preceding regulations.
Стр. 91 - I heard it float farther and farther, In sound more perfect than speech ; Farther than sight can follow, Farther than soul can reach. And I know that at last my message Has passed through the golden gate : So my heart is no longer restless, And I am content to wait.
Стр. 91 - Has the earth no Angel friend Who will carry my love the message That my heart desires to send ?" Then I heard a strain of music So mighty, so pure, so clear, That my very sorrow was silent, And my heart stood still to hear. And I felt in my soul's deep yearning At last the sure answer stir — ' The music will go up to Heaven And carry my thought to her.
Стр. 474 - In localities more distant than nine hours' travel from the residence of the consular agent, in which the law of the judicial organization of the Velayet may be in force, foreigners shall be tried without the assistance of the consular delegate by the Council of Elders fulfilling the function of justices of the peace, and by the tribunal of the canton, as well for actions not exceeding one thousand piastres as for offences entailing a fine of five hundred piastres only at the maximum.
Стр. 473 - ... inclosures, to the exclusion of all other parts of the property. In localities distant less than nine hours from the Consular residence, the officers of police cannot enter the dwelling of a foreigner without the assistance of the Consul, as above stated. On his part the Consul is bound to afford his aid immediately to the local authority, so that...
Стр. 477 - ... of which they may not have disposed or of which the law does not permit them to dispose by gift or testament, its succession shall be governed in accordance with Ottoman law. ART. V. All foreigners shall enjoy the privileges of the present law as soon as the powers on which they depend shall agree to the arrangements proposed by the Sublime Porte for the exercise of the right to hold real estate.
Стр. 465 - Generale of Paris, Messrs. Louis Cohen and Son, Paris, and Messrs. Dent, Palmer, & Co., London, were placed on the security of a variety of special taxes, imposts, and tithes, as well as on the general revenues, ' present and future,
Стр. 53 - ... anarchy, bloodshed, and massacres, calculated to precipitate a diplomatic or an armed intervention on the part of the greater powers of Europe, for the purpose of numbing and paralysing all Turkish government in Turkey. That was then being done by bands of brigands, recruited, subsidised, organised, and directed from without principally by a committee at Bucharest. They received orders to break out into open plunder and pillage all over Bulgaria, so as to compel the peaceable Christian peasantry...
Стр. 196 - They have no homes to go to, and the armed bands threaten all who breathe a whisper of submission. These bands are all formed of a mixture of people from different parts of the country, and all mutually watch each other to prevent any combination to submit. The ruin and devastation in the plain of Nevessin and along all the Dalmatian frontier, and wherever the insurgents have passed, is piteous to behold, and renders any satisfactory arrangement more hopeless than it would otherwise have been. Your...

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