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ad dressing the Deity with more effect in ? a smga , r-loa £ cap , and twisting round lie Todm Kke a top : —a personage who * , in a devout fit , would p lump down upon his knees in the nndsrt of the inmost crowded street ,
without tumiwg h& head round before he had finished the last reekath * of his orison * if alt Constantinople were trembling in ? a » earthquake $ who , consisidering adl amusements as equally heinous ^ made no difference between a
game of chess or ma&gala , and illicit attentions to one ' s own great-grandmother , and once , in his devout fury , with his * enormous chaplet positively demolished Karagheliz f in the midst of all his drollery : a ; personage who , at the end of the Ramadan , J looked like a walking spectre , and the very last time of this fast absolutely doubled
Its length , only for having snuffed up with ; pleasure , before the hours of abstinence were over , the fumes of a kiebab on it ^ passage out of a coofcshop : Or personage who had an absolute horror of all representations of the humar * figure—those of St . Mark
on the Venetian sequin only excepted : a personage , in fine , who already was suraamed in hjs own district the Wely ot Saint ; amd whom all his neighbours were dying to see dead , only that they might haiig their rags round his grave , and so get cured of the ague . When ? this reverend Mooliah § first 2
made his appearance , Msface was still becfewed ? with teara of sympathy , occasioned by a ^ most heart-rending" scene of domestic woe , which his charitable hand had * just assuaged . In an adtjoinuig street he had' found , stretched out on the bare pavement , a whole miserable feuriaily ,- « -fa , ther , mother ,
bro-* A division of the Mdhamtnedan prayer . t Biack ^ eye ^; the principle personage in a Turkish puppet-show resembling the Ombres Chinoisea , t Or Ramazati : the month daring which the MoJiamme ^ ans f ^ st aM day artd feast all nigk Wbjtte the sun ram ^ fe * above tlj ^ ' horizon tftey cfcr < p mft even refresh theinMve ^ ^ m ii 4 r 6 t > of water or
a wttif irtdHatM ; § 6 ^ ttririi : tittffl ^ HftiMdtebtorap <* f kwv , who , ab 6 c % « fi % ffrWi StiifiitiHtf ^ W sysi temj are ( Smm ^ W d ^ filftt ; -i # *^ W a ^ the Mohaftftttf ^ fetf la \^ i ^ Mltiftf fOtirfd ** ou ^^ Kbrani ,
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ther , sister , together at least with a . dozen children of tender age , —in a state of complete starvation . The very description of such a pitiotjs sight harrowed up my soul . Lest , however , the holy man should mcur" a suspicion of having been betrayed into a weakness so reprehensible as tterfe of pity for the human species—for which lie felt all the contempt it deserved , and which he never presumed to solace under any of the visitations inflicted by Providence , —I should add , that the
wretched objects of his pfesent compassion were of that less criminal sort , the canine species ! They belonged to those troops of unowned dogs-whom the Turks of Constantinople allow to live in their streets on the public
bounty , in order to have the pleasure of seeing them bark at the Christians whom their Frank dress betrays . To these , and other beings of the irrational genus , were entirely confined the benefactions of my tut $ ? y and if hi $ own species have few obligations tfr
acknowledge from hiin , he was recorded ^ as having purchased the libetty of tlttee hundred and fifty canary birds in cages , granted pensions to the baker and butcher for the maintenance of fifty cats , and left afe least a dozen dogd , whom he found on the pave , handsomely provided fo * in his will .
No sooner vvas my venerable instructor comfortably seated on Ms heels in the angle of my sofa ^ than looking around hiift with' an air of complacency , as if he liked my log g-
ings , he told me to my infinite satisfaction , that , provided he only took liia station there for two hours every d ^ y , he pledged himself before the efld of the first year to instruct ihe thoroughly iii all the diversities of the four
orthodox rito « fe > —the Maaaeff , Scfttffey , Hanbaiy and Maleky ; together With all that belonged to the ninety-rime epithets o $ the £ te % , teprfesented By the ninety-nine beads of the chapl ^ t . Ifr ' tkff sjWfefc of another t # elvfen * 6 tith he ventfumd' i ^ Bti | Hfi * iitet h ^ iAigWjf 6 over witk me ; tHk& ^ hd |^*< fiHKi ^ fe betS ^^ the tm > httnd ¥ edf ana 4 teigEftr
mo ^ t canomccil MiiSte ^* or < $ iSBSS 6 M ^ tdtors O ^ t ^ Ko ^ aii , a * # elFVl « twor hunted aM t ^ rt ^ five articfefe of the cm * dy m wMfcK tK ^ bgi ^^ e «^ r ttttn a dif ^ t ^^ or orfpfon ^ ^ ia at tte ! third y&& ^^ miM , m § m nmed td ^ Aittte ^ tfte rtmilMf to
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Initiation * tif a Moslemin . ^ 3
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1820, page 83, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2485/page/19/
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