The present state of the Ottoman Empire : containing the maxims of the Turkish politie, the most material points of the Mahometan religion, their sects and heresies, their convents and religious votaries : their military discipline, with an exact computation of their forces both by land and sea : iIllustrated with divers pieces of sculpture, representing the variety of habits amongst the Turks : in three books (1668)
Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700, Starkey, John, 17th century, publisher, Brome, Henry, publisher · London : Pinted for John Starkey and Henry Brome, at the Mitre between the Middle-Temple-Gate and Temple-Bar in Fleet-Street, and the Star in Little-Britain · leaf 167
ona faeries and Votaries . they would excufethe courtefieof due Hofpitality, firetching his arms firft towards Heaven, and then bowed down and gathered a Kobe leafe which he laid on the water, which before had filled the diili : by which piece of ingenuity , he not only confuted the parable of the… … THis Order may rather be termed the Sed of Epicureans, then men retired to mortifie their appetites, and deny the world, as all other of the religious and regulated Turks pretend ; but yet this fort of Fana- ticks pretend to Religion by a different way of Libertinifm and loofc- nefs in their…
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