The City of the Sultan; and Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836, Vol. 2 (of 2)
CHAPTER XIV.
Political Position of the Turks—Religion of the Osmanlis—Absence of Vice among the Lower Orders—Defect of Turkish Character—European Supineness—Policy of Russia—England and France—A Turkish Comment on England—The Government and the People—Common Virtue—Great Men—Turks of the Provinces—European Misconceptions 198