janizaries

Livia settled all things for the succession of her son Tiberius, by continual giving out, that her husband Augustus was upon recovery and amendment, and it is an usual thing with the pashas, to conceal the death of the Great Turk from the janizaries and men of war, to save the sacking of

The Essays 2007

For their men of war; it is a dangerous state, where they live and remain in a body, and are used to donatives; whereof we see examples in the janizaries, and pretorian bands of Rome; but trainings of men, and arming them in several places, and under several commanders, and without donatives, are things of defence, and no danger.

The Essays 2007

This Framer, a believer in “energy in the executive,” derided worries about a too-powerful president and included this line: “We have been taught to tremble at the terrific visages of murdering janizaries and to blush at the unveiled mysteries of a future seraglio.”

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

This Framer, a believer in “energy in the executive,” derided worries about a too-powerful president and included this line: “We have been taught to tremble at the terrific visages of murdering janizaries and to blush at the unveiled mysteries of a future seraglio.”

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

This Framer, a believer in “energy in the executive,” derided worries about a too-powerful president and included this line: “We have been taught to tremble at the terrific visages of murdering janizaries and to blush at the unveiled mysteries of a future seraglio.”

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

This Framer, a believer in “energy in the executive,” derided worries about a too-powerful president and included this line: “We have been taught to tremble at the terrific visages of murdering janizaries and to blush at the unveiled mysteries of a future seraglio.”

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

And between renegades, janizaries, and mothers of all nations, the blood of many a Turk must be physically anything rather than Turkish.

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After the regular troops had been corrupted by faction, the caliphs, for the defence of their person and government, formed a militia; but the soldiers composing this force, not unfrequently foreigners, soon governed with a military despotism similar to that of the janizaries of Turkey, the

History of the Moors of Spain M. Florian

Tyrants have trembled, surrounded by whole armies of their janizaries.

Fifteen Years in Hell Luther Benson

I felt as though, strong as the yoke of these janizaries and their master looked, I had the death-warrant of imperialism in my pocket.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Various