Turkey
place · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
the Turk
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The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Region named as a transit route for foreigners arriving in the Indies.
Further, inasmuch as it has been reported to me that within your jurisdiction there are sojourning many foreigners of different nations, Italians, French, Germans, and men of the Low Countries, the larger part of whom as we know came there by way of Persia and Turkey, and not through our realm;
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The Ottoman domain, invoked twice as a negative comparative example of despotic, arbitrary rule over property and justice.
They are exactly the same in principle with the mode of rendering justice, adopted in Turkey.
But, although this species of tyranny has become too atrocious to be borne by any of the Europeans except those subject to the Turk, when inflicted without disguise, yet it is still pursued to a most oppressive extent by their governments, concealed behind exclusive privileges, pensions, and a variety of abuses, by which the evil is disseminated over a whole nation, and every individual, except th …
Common Sense
Cited as the extreme case of royal oppression, against which England's relative mildness is explained by people's character, not constitution
Wherefore laying aside all national pride and prejudice in favour of modes and forms, the plain truth is, that it is wholly owing to the constitution of the People, and not to the constitution of the Government that the Crown is not as oppressive in England as in Turkey.