Modern TurkeyHurst and Blackett, 1872 - 353 pages |
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Page 17 - d Ida, Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die. For now the noonday quiet holds the hill : The grasshopper is silent in the grass : The lizard, with his shadow on the stone, Rests like a shadow, and the cicala sleeps.
Page 162 - Salonica, or any other port of our Sacred Dominions in fertile and abundant years, and not in times of dearth or scarcity, two cargoes of figs and raisins, and after having paid a duty of three per cent, thereon, no obstacle or hindrance shall be given thereto.