The near East from within . was in direstraits, but though he never imagined he could regeneratehis country, yet he did not oppose those who attemptedthe task. He would have preferred above everythingthat someone should succeed in rousing the OttomanEmpire, one who would be content to leave to Mehmedthe credit and the profit resulting from the understood his personal shortcomings, but felt,nevertheless, comfortable in their possession. He cer-tainly would have been entirely sorry to reform eitherhis position, his character, his moral outlook, or any-thing in his way of life. He w
The near East from within . was in direstraits, but though he never imagined he could regeneratehis country, yet he did not oppose those who attemptedthe task. He would have preferred above everythingthat someone should succeed in rousing the OttomanEmpire, one who would be content to leave to Mehmedthe credit and the profit resulting from the understood his personal shortcomings, but felt,nevertheless, comfortable in their possession. He cer-tainly would have been entirely sorry to reform eitherhis position, his character, his moral outlook, or any-thing in his way of life. He was proud, too, in his way :proud of his people, perhaps even more than of his rankor of his riches, or of the power he was supposed towield from the day he put on the sword of Osman atthe Mosque of Eyoub. When the messengers came to tell him that he wasSultan, he at first refused to believe it; his next thoughtwas one of extreme solicitude as to the fate of his brother,respecting whom he kept asking for news and for assur-. <u I e o
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