Identifier: someworldcircuit01nich (find matches)
Title: Some world-circuit saunterings
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Nichols, William F. (William Ford), 1849-1924
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: San Francisco, P. Elder and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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nd made it practically what it was often called,New Rome, the course of empire was distinctlynot westward, but eastward. And the effect onhistory of that orientation of its course was fullyas epochal as any single event that has happenedsince. And so old Constantinople is apt to appealstrongly to one who has in mind this turning point inChurch as well as in imperial affairs. With the sec-tions of the city well defined as Stamboul, Pera, Galataand Scutari, for the general sightseeing, the Churchsaunterer instinctively gives all precedence to thefirst, which is an abbreviation of Istamboul, that inturn having come from the Greek for into the city.To Stamboul we go then as into the city site of Con-stantines time. And the lure of that draws one awayas far as possible in thought and imagination fromthe modern scenes and street jostHngs and cries ofthe Turkish capital. Over the crowded Galatabridge humming with its many-hued life, past theParhament buildings typical of the most modern (36)
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