Selected quad for the lemma: world_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	line_n	page_n	read_v	2,076	5	9.0614	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52021	A new survey of the Turkish empire and government in a brief history deduced to this present time, and the reign of the now Grand Seignior, Mahomet the IV, the present and XIV emperor : with their laws, religion, and customs : as also an account of the siege of Newhausel.	Marsh, Henry, fl. 1663-1664.	1663 (1663)	Wing M729A; ESTC R15790	58,977	200

The true and Exact Portrayture of ●… MAHOMET the 4th fourteenth Emperour of the Turks now raigning in 1663 MatthAei Florentinus Pinxit Io Chantry sculp A New Survey OF THE Turkish Empire AND GOVERNMENT IN A Brief HISTORY deduced to this present Time and the Reign of ●he now GRAND SEIGNIOR MAHOMET the IV. The present and XIV Emperor With their Laws Religion and Customs As also an Account of the Siege of NEWHAUSEL LONDON Printed for Henry Marsh at the sign of the Princes Arms in Chancery-Lane 1663. To the Right VVorshipful Sir ANDREW RICCARD Knight and Governour of the Levant Company THis Turkish Breviary and Abstract as of right and due addresseth it self to your Hands in which the Administration of our Intelligence and Commerce with that Nation is very worthily and prudently placed Be pleased therefore among other lesser Concerns of your Surintendence therein to suffer your Name to be interested in the Patronage of this Brief SVRVEY The Prefixing whereof was partly designed to compose and civilize those horrid and dire conceptions we have of those Barbarous Arms by letting the World see that persons of the greatest Humanity have and do maintain a constant and amicable Corespondence with them partly to let their present Dread and Puissance do service to those fair and obliging atractions for which your Name is no less Famous and partly to vindicate the Truth of the Discourse ensuing when we offer it at so known an Altar and to so competent a Judge and Patron And that advantage with your own Eminence will justly engage an Ambition to sound your Name in the general Voyce and Discourse of the World which is now busied with this Mighty Monarch whose Glories and Successes will have this further felicity that they have harmlesly reached us under your particular Protection And under that let the World also be taught the great and admirable effects of Sobriety and Abstinence and the mischiefs of Ryot and Excess For this Asian People once the nauseated and basest dregs of the World odious for their Luxury and Infamous for their Slavery the necessary consequents thereof are now by their temperance and abstemiousness the injunction and Discipline of an absurd Religion become the Mightiest Nation and greatest Lord of the Universe and by irresistible and over bearing approaches have given the Empire of Germany the reeling staggering Remnant of the Fourth Monarchy a Cup of Trembling God in his good time heal those Breaches and pardon the many provoking sins of Christendom and continue us in our undeserved peace and your Noble Self and Family therein in all Honour and prosperity So prays Your Humble and Devoted Servant H. Marsh ERRATA THe Reader is desired to mend and observe a mistake in Page 8. Line 25 for 1633. read 1640. THE PREFACE TO THE READER WHile the noyse of those barbarous Armies that now prevail in Hungaria and dangerously threaten the adjacent Hereditary Dominions of the German Emperour as Arch-Duke of Austria do resound through the whole Christian world which may justly fear the second part of that Tragedy which the in●…undation of the Goths and Vandals terribly effected in those parts of Europe that now are the next affrighted Neighbours to this Invasion It will be a satisfactory endeavour I presume to give some account of this terrible Enemy whose distant efforts give us the secure and quiet contemplation of his strength and power while it employs other Regions of Christendom in hasty and tumultuous Action and hath hurled them into a general distraction and consternation I will not be curious to dive into this providence and grand Affair of the world unto which so many strange events seem to be chained as that the Fate of the Vniverse is judged by some to be concerned therein but he that shall consider and peruse some modern Treatises which hint at this very thing and shall likewise weigh with himself those great mutations and changes which have been wrought in this Kingdom especially the late blessed Restitution must beleive that some extraordinary Revolution is at hand and that ours and the like in other parts are but the precursory and predictory signs of some Conclusive wonder The expectation of the world hath long laboured under the discourse and disputes about Antichrist variously conceived by a multitude of Writers as also about the period of the Roman Empire which now is visible only and hath been so for some ages in the House of Austria supported by the Grandeur of the Spanish Monarchy and it is now no vain and groundless an opinion of the same that one or both of these Mysterious Intrigues in humane judgement will in this present juncture be determined at least some greater light be given by this clashing and collision of the Eastern and Western Princes the success whereof will decide whether Caesar aut Nullus a Caesar or No Body The Reader therefore I hope will take in good part this brief Account of the Customs Laws and manners subjoyned to this brief History of this Formidable Nation as they are described by a worthy hand a person of quality und experience A NEW SURVEY OF THE Turkish Empire PART I. The Rise of the Turkish Empire and its Present Greatness THis Puissant and almost numberless people in their Armies and Hosts which like Xerxes his Forces drink whole Rivers dry as they march came from most contemptible and petty Originals and like the Roman Empire which began from a collected rabble of loose and outlawed persons was founded in a Company of theiving Shepheards who wandring up and down like a running disease infested and disquieted all places they came to and at last grew to such considerable strength like a Snow-ball that they became suspect to the Monarchs of the East both Pagan and Christian The rise of the Turkish power The first appearance which rendred them Famous and Notable to the world was under the conduct and leading of their Captain Tangrolipix who was called in by the King of Persia to ayd him against the potent and prevailing Armies of the Saracens which having readily undertaken and strenuously and succesfully atcheived this Auxiliary took occasion to carve for himself and erect a new Principality and Empire as well as upon his friends whom he pretended to rescue as upon their common enemies territory making both of them the equal prey of his ambition of Soveraignty and Dominion This new Family continued in this Usurpation and Intrusion with various success one hundred and seventy years to the year of our Lord 1300. But standing solely upon its own legs neither strengthned nor secured by any alliances and wasted with a continual War with the former just Propietors of the Land they had treacherously and forcibly wrested it expired its dying gasping breath into a younger slip of the same House for now the Zelzuccian Name and Fortune was transmitted to the Oguzian Tribe which were the two and onely Descendants of this people whom Fate had adopted to