The Shaping of Turkey in the British Imagination, 1776â1923 by David S. Katz
Author:David S. Katz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham
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âI confess to you that my Turkish prejudices are very much confirmed by my residence in Turkey,â Disraeli wrote to a friend:The life of this people greatly accords with my taste, which is naturally somewhat indolent and melancholy, and I do not think would disgust you. To repose on voluptuous ottomans, and smoke superb pipes, daily to indulge in the luxuries of a bath which requires half a dozen attendants for its perfection, to court the air in a carved caique by shores which are a continual scene and to find no exertion greater than a canter on a barb, is I think a far more sensible life than all the bustle of clubs, all the boring of saloonsâall this without any coloring and exaggeration is the life which may be here commanded accompanied by a thousand sources of calm enjoyment and a thousand modes of mellowed pleasure, which it wo[ul]d weary you to relate, and which I leave to your own lively imagination. 55
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