Our New Protectorate: Turkey in Asia : Its Geography, Races, Resources, and Government, with a Map Showing the Existing and Projected Public Works, 1. kötet

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Chapman and Hall, 1879
 

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162. oldal - ... temple: at Oxford or Geneva they would experience less surprise ; but it might still be incumbent on them to peruse the catechism of the church, and to study the orthodox commentators on their own writings and the words of their Master. But the Turkish dome of St. Sophia, with an increase of splendour and size, represents the humble tabernacle erected at Medina by the hands of Mahomet.
162. oldal - The Mahometans have uniformly withstood the temptation of reducing the object of their faith and devotion to a level with the senses and imagination of man. " I believe in one God, " and Mahomet the apostle of God," is the simple and invariable profession of Islam.
162. oldal - God," is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image of the Deity has never been degraded by any visible idol ; the honors of the prophet have never transgressed the measure of human virtue ; and his living precepts have restrained the gratitude of his disciples within the bounds of reason and religion.
162. oldal - African, and the Turkish proselytes of the Koran. If the Christian apostles, St. Peter or St. Paul, could return to the Vatican, they might possibly inquire the name of the Deity who is worshipped with such mysterious rites in that magnificent temple: at Oxford or Geneva, they would experience less surprise; but it might still be incumbent on them to peruse the catechism of the church, and to study the orthodox commentators on their own writings and the words of their Master.
162. oldal - Not to destroy the fruits of the earth — not to disturb the labours of the husbandman — not to cut down the grateful palm or the olive — not to poison or to stop the wells — to spare the old and the young — the mother and her babes, and in a word, to abridge war, as far as might be done, of its horrors. In reading these military orders, and in following the march of the caliphs who received them, it is impossible to exclude from the mind the recollection of wars waged by Christians —...
113. oldal - It bears every mark of having been anciently a part of the bed of the sea., from which it has gradually emerged. The soil is interspersed with marine fossils and other exuviae, and contains large strata of salt, which in some places shoot up into hills.
178. oldal - Gayank, which is not a purgatory, for they suffer neither pain nor pleasure, but retain a perfect consciousness of the past From this state they may be delivered by the alms and prayers of the living, which the pious Armenians give liberally for their friends.
161. oldal - Abraham, as the father and the first author of their religion ; they hold Moses and Christ to have been great prophets sent from God ; and the Law and the Gospel to be sacred books.
206. oldal - The first of these is the acorn cup of an oak (Quercus œgilnps) that grows abundantly throughout Anatolia, in some parts of Armenia, and in Kurdistan. The cups contain from thirty to thirty-seven per cent, of tannin, and are exported, especially from Smyrna, in large quantities to Europe for tanning purposes. Madder, the root of the Rubia tinctorum, is a red dyeing material of great importance : the plant is a native of the South of Europe, Asia Minor, and British India, but is also now grown extensively...
188. oldal - I have no objection to it, so be that he make not the virgin God."* It accused him next, of holding not only to two natures, but to two persons in Christ. And even had he used such language, no one accustomed to discriminate, will deny, that it might have had in his mouth no heretical meaning. But he perseveringly denied the charge to the end of his life.

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