Word: turks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard in the Sixties, I, H. G. Palfrey. The Turk Fighter, A. E. Hancock. A Question in Rhetoric...
...Harvard in the Sixties," by H. G. Palfrey, is interesting. The reader is surprised at all the great changes which thirty years have wrought. The Turk Fighter is a clever sketch. It describes the ingenius way the inhabitants of a certain Hungarian village have of treating their shrews. These two articles and the latter of the "Two Sketches" are the only things that are worth reading in the number. None of the other contents has the slightest excuse for publication, except that of filling space...
...Armenians who are thus blindly massacred? Are they parvenus, intruders upon the Turks? Quite the contrary. They are the original inhabitants of the soil, where they had dwelt for thousands of years before the Turk came with sword and fire to take possession. In character industrious and thrifty, and in moral development in no way inferior to that of more western nations, it is particularly interesting for us to notice that they were the very first nation to embrace Christianity; their king accepting the faith for himself and nobles even before the conversion of the Emperor Constantine...
Scapin then sees Geronte, and tells him that a Turk has captured his son, and carried him away in a ship, and that he demanded a large ransom for his release. The old man after some delay, gives him the money. Not satisfied with this he tells Geronte that his life is in danger from brigands, and induces him to enter a sack for protection Scapin then imitates the noises of brigands and gives the old man a sound drubbing. The money is given to the young men and Leandre is enabled to marry. The two young men then meet...