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Updated: May 10, 2025
Both these distinguished writers of different periods agree in testifying, that all the devotions of the Catholics were and are still conducted with so much order that they are admired both by Christians and Turks, whereas those of the schismatical Christians took place with much confusion, and with such a noise, that the Janissaries, who had to preserve order, were obliged to strike the persons engaged in them as well as the spectators.
Besides, he was no true believer, or he would not have disobeyed the law. A good Mussulman will never touch a drop of wine." "I promised to forgive, and did forgive, the murder of the black slave; but an aga of janissaries! Is not that quite another thing?" appealed the pacha to Mustapha. "Your highness is just in your indignation the kafir deserves to be impaled.
The crowd, pressing back, went down upon its knees and grovelled as Asad-ed-Din on a milk-white mule rode forward, escorted by Tsamanni his wazeer and a cloud of black-robed janissaries with flashing scimitars. The curses that had greeted the violence of his negroes were suddenly silenced; instead, blessings as fervent filled the air. "May Allah increase thy might! May Allah lengthen thy days!
Oh, yes, the ghouls will look better next week! Only give them time to convert the clothes they will strip from the dead into fresh turbans. But when the Janissaries come Your Majesty will not be disappointed. See their advance guard now there on the rising ground in front of the gate."
The centre of the host belongs of right to the flower, the kernel of the imperial army the haughty Janissaries.
After him came a dozen black-robed janissaries with scimitars along which the light of the torches rippled in little runnels as of blood. The Basha came to a halt before Sakr-el-Bahr, his arms majestically folded, his head thrown back, so that his long white beard jutted forward. "I am returned," he said, "to employ force where gentleness will not avail.
The converts, and the members of the college, in rather a scanty number, faced the officiating clergyman; before whom the silver maces of the janissaries were set up, as they set up the beadles' maces in England. I made many walks round the city to Olivet and Bethany, to the tombs of the kings, and the fountains sacred in story.
Never does a pasha say: "We supped yesterday with the Aga of the Janissaries who is my sister's lover, and the vicar of the mosque who is my wife's director." The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.
What he won to my youthful eyes-was fabulous. There's no use saying what you think you kind friends, who've always done something in life that I was a good-for-nothing creature to give myself up to the turf, to horses and jockeys, and the janissaries of sport.
Much was said about Pisistratus, Timophanes, Dionysius, Agathocles, Marius and Sylla, Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar, Carthage besieged by her own mercenaries, Rome put up to auction by her own Praetorian cohorts, Sultan Osman butchered by his own Janissaries, Lewis Sforza sold into captivity by his own Switzers. But the favourite instance was taken from the recent history of our own land.
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