 | 1840 - 734 páginas
...Christianity in those countries. By the Rev. HORATIO SOUT uu. TwotoU, Ixwdon, 18W. Tilt and Bogue. My instructions had pointed me to the necessity of...they had been formed from a false position. I had began to study the East with a Western mind. I had applied a standard of judgment which necessarily... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 536 páginas
...the candour of the admission with wliirli he sets out. ' At the end of my first month's residence iu Constantinople, I might have promulgated my opinions...from a false position. I had begun to study the East wilh a Western mind. I had applied a standard f judgment which necessarily presented a false measurcuent.... | |
 | Timothy Marr - 2006 - 280 páginas
...promulgated my opinions on Turkish institutions and customs with the utmost confidence," confessed Southgate: "At the end of three months, I began to perceive the...found that I knew next to nothing of the object of my study."142 Part of Southgate 's difficulty in fathoming Islam rested with his naive belief that he... | |
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At the end of my first month's residence in Constantinople, I might have promulgated my opinions on Turkish institutions and customs with the utmost confidence. At the end of three months, I began to perceive the fallacy of most of my conclusions, and... 