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Memoirs on the Ionian Islands; Considered in a Commercial, Political and Military, Point of View in Which Their Advantages of Position Are Described, as Well as Their Relations with the Greek Continent Including the Life and Character of Ali Pacha,

Memoirs on the Ionian Islands; Considered in a Commercial, Political and Military, Point of View in Which Their Advantages of Position Are Described, as Well as Their Relations with the Greek Continent Including the Life and Character of Ali Pacha,


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER I. Situation of the Ottoman Empire previous to the French Revolution.?Projects and Conduct of Russia and Austria.?The French Revolution has changed the Situation of the Ottoman Empire.?Position of Turkey from 1807 to 1812.?The Occupation of the Ionian Islands favourable to her. AMIDST the momentous revolutions which have, more or less, rent the various States of Europe, and broken down the political balance, one only has been able to preserve itself untouched, and remain a quiet spectator of th phases which have humbled or raised the others, tending to exhaust them all. Such has been the fortune of the Ottoman Empire. This exposition alone would suffice for the praises of its government, if so happy an exception had, or could have been, the result of a wise and enlightened conduct in times of danger and difficulty. It is, however, no other than the consequence of the inertness of a colossal power, which has no other weight in the political balance than that of its physical mass, renderedforeign to the interests of its neighbours, and to all combined and regular relations therewith, by national ignorance and a diversity of religion. Turkey has thus been able to keep aloof from the vortex and point of contact with the other contending nations. The only reasonable consequence to be drawn from this singular phenomenon is, that the existence and result of the revolutions of Europe have served to prolong the duration of an enervated empire, and which, similar to those ancient monuments originally placed on solid foundations still sustains itself on pilasters half mouldered away through the lapse of time. Turkey may, consequently, now repose tranquil within the limits assigned to her by the last peace, which has only deprived her of a, dis- By this peace, signed bet...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217021890
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 104
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217021891
  • Publisher Date: 13 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 200 gr


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