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Journal of a Voyage Up the Mediterranean Principally Among the Islands of the Archipelago, and in Asia Minor (Volume 2); Including Many Interesting Pa

Journal of a Voyage Up the Mediterranean Principally Among the Islands of the Archipelago, and in Asia Minor (Volume 2); Including Many Interesting Pa

Swan, Charles

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ISBN10: 1235149773
ISBN13: 9781235149771
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.22 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1826. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... educated for intrigue; and the generous contests which are engaged in for the deliverance of a people, require true courage and free and disinterested souls. Assuredly the Fanariote princes desire a change of circumstances; but a change for their own advantage. The idea of enfranchising their country from the Osmanlee yoke, has never for a moment smiled on them. They could easily conceive a little revolution in the Seraglio; but not a revolution which, by means of the Ipsariotes and Hydriotes, should burn the Capitan Pachas in their ships; and cause the walls of fortresses in the Morea to succumb under the impetuosity of the Greeks. I except, however, from the number of these princes, the brave Ipsilanti: whose destiny appears distinct from that of the Sultans of the Fanar. His military exploits had already distinguished him in the armies of the Czar; for he lost his right hand at the battle of Culm. His great soul was framed for great actions. A single arm remained to him; and he was desirous of employing it in the deliverance of his country. He was ill-seconded in his enterprise; but Greece divined it, and the hour of its deliverance sounded in the belfries of the cities of the iEgean sea, as well as in the mountains of Taygetus *. Ipsilanti descends from the princes of that name; but he has never figured among the Boyars of Constantinople, nor been tainted with their vices. His ancestors have even merited in the bosom of corruption the titles of just and generous. Many monuments, erected both in Greece and in the provinces, attest the benefits of their administration, their taste for the fine arts, and for useful institutions. As for the DEGREESEtairists, of whom we speak as often as the instigators of the late Greek revolution is spoken of, I am firmly persuade

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