 ... cannot be devised than that which condemns the natives of a country to perpetual servitude, under the arbitrary dominion of strangers and slaves. Yet such has been the state of Egypt above five hundred years. The most illustrious sultans of the Baharite...  The Nile Boat Or, Glimpses of the Land of Egypt - Page 44by William Henry Bartlett - 1849 - 218 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...dynasties,'02 were themselves promoted from the Tartar and Circassian bands; and the fourand-twenty beys or military chiefs, have ever been succeeded, not by their sons, but by their servants. They produce the great charter of their liberties, the treaty of Selim the first with the republic... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1827 - 574 pages
...Egypt above five hundred years. The most illustrious sultans of the Baharite and Borgite dynasties k. were themselves promoted from the Tartar and Circassian...succeeded, not by their sons, but by their servants. Tiiey produce the great charter of their liberties, the treaty of Selirn the first with the republic1;... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1827 - 384 pages
...Borghite dynasties were themselves promoted from the Tatar and Circassian bands ; and the four-andtwenty beys or military chiefs have ever been succeeded, not by their sons, but by their servants."* It is a remarkable fact, (if Volney may be depended upon,) that, during upwards of five centuries that... | |
 | Alexander Keith - Apologetics - 1830 - 176 pages
...been the state of Egypt above 500 years. The most illustrious sultans of the Baharite and Borghite dynasties were themselves promoted from the Tartar...Circassian bands ; and the four and twenty beys, or mililsiry chiefs, have ever been succeeded, not by their sons, but by their servants.' (Hist, of Decl.... | |
 | Richard Watson - Bible - 1832 - 1094 pages
...the state of Egypt above five hundred years. The most illustrious sultans of the Daharite and Borgite dynasties were themselves promoted from the Tartar and Circassian bands ; and the four-and-twenty beys, or military chiefs, have ever been succeeded, not by their sons, but by their... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 187? - 164 pages
...been the state of Egypt above 500 years. The most illustrious sultans of the Baharite and Borghite dynasties were themselves promoted from the Tartar and Circassian bands ; and the four-and-twenty beys, or military chiefs, have ever been succeeded, not hy theirsons, but by their... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1835 - 464 pages
...the state of Egypt above five hundred years. The most illustrious sultans of the Baharite and Borgite dynasties, were themselves promoted from the Tartar...succeeded, not by their sons, but by their servants."" 11 These are the words of Volney and of Gibbon ;—and what did the ancient prophets foretell ? " /... | |
 | George Coles - Apologetics - 1836 - 424 pages
...illustrious sultans were themselves promoted from the Tartar and Circassian bands ; and the four-and-twenty beys, or military chiefs, have ever been succeeded, not by their sons, but by their servants." These are the words of the men who could scoff at the Christian religion, while they were, undesignedly,... | |
 | Alexander Keith - Apologetics - 1836 - 294 pages
...the state of Egypt above five hundred years. The most illustrious sultans of the Baharite and Borgite dynasties were themselves promoted from the Tartar and Circassian bands ; and the four-and-twenty beys, or military chiefs, have ever been succeeded, not by their sons, but by their... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - Bethany (W. Va.) - 1838 - 540 pages
...the state of Egypt above five hundred years. The most illustrious sultans of the Baharite and Borgite dynasties were themselves promoted from the Tartar and Circassian bands; and the four-and-twenty beys, or military chiefs, have ever been succeeded, not by their sons, but by their... | |
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