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The unspeakable Turk should be immediately struck out of the question, and the country be left to honest European guidance. - Thomas Carlyle, in a letter to a meeting at St. James Hall, London, 1876 [Turks] one and all, bag and baggage, shall I hope clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned. - Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, in a speech The Lofty Gate of the Royal Tent. - Mahomet II, the Great, see E.S. Creasy "History of the Ottoman Turks", p. 96 (ed. 1877) [The Ottoman Empire] whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it. - Charles de Montesquieu (Charles-Louis de Secondat), Persian Letters (I, 19) We have on out hands a sick man,--a very sick man. [The sick man of Europe, the Turk.] - Nicholas I, conversation with Sir George Hamilton Seymour (1853), see "Blue Book" (1854) [The Ottoman Empire] has the body of a sick old man, who tried to appear healthy, although his end was near. - Sir Thomas Roe, see Buchanan "Letter", 375 Your Majesty may think me an impatient sick man, and that the Turks are even sicker. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire), to Catherine II, see the "Rundschau", Apr., 1878
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