How We Defended Arábi and His Friends: A Story of Egypt and the Egyptians |
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Abd-el-Ál accused Ahmed Arábi Ahmed Rifát Alexandria Ali Pacha Arábi Pacha Arabic army arrived asked Blunt bombardment Borelli Bey British Broadley Cairo cause cell Cherif Pacha Circassian clients Commission of Inquiry Constantinople Council counsel Court Martial Daira Saniya declared decree defence Dervesh Pacha Egypt Egyptian Government Egyptian Nationalism England English European exile favour French friends Hasan Moosa honour Ibrahim Ismaïl Eyoub Ismaïl Pacha Ismaïlia justice Kafr-el-Dowar Khedive Khedive's letter Lord Charles Beresford Lord Dufferin Mahmoud Fehmy Mahmoud Sámi Mehemet Ali military Minister Ministry Moslem Muhamed Napier Nationalists never Nubar once Osmán Pacha Fouzy Ottoman Pacha Sámi Palace persons political present President prisoners question Ramleh rebel rebellion received Riáz Pacha seemed sent Sheikh Abdú Sir Charles Wilson Sir Edward Malet soldiers Soudan Suleimán Sámi Sultan Sultán Pacha Tel-el-Kebir telegram telegraphed Tewfik Pacha tion told Toulba Pacha trial troops Tunis Turkish Ulemas Yacoub Sámi Zagazig
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Page 379 - Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again." "That last line is much too long for the poetry," she added, almost out loud, forgetting that Humpty Dumpty would hear her.
Page 490 - The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But, to return, and view the cheerful skies — In this the task and mighty labour lies.
Page 442 - As a consequence, responsibilities have been imposed upon us. Europe, and the Egyptian people, whom we have undertaken to rescue from anarchy, have alike a right to require that our intervention should be beneficent and its results enduring; that it should obviate all danger of future perturbations; and that it should leave established on sure foundations the principles of justice, liberty and public...
Page 443 - ... immediate opinion on various subjects. Lord Dufferin very sensibly asked this minister in a hurry to allow him breathing time. But he so far complied with the wishes of his employers that he actually made his final report within three months of his arrival at Cairo. This report foreshadowed ' the creation, within certain prudent limits, of representative institutions, of municipal and communal self-government, and of a political existence untrammelled by external importunity, though aided, indeed,...
Page 444 - Mahommcdan religion is essentially democratic; and, on the other, that the primitive idea of the elders of the land assembling in Council round their Chief has never altogether faded out of the traditions of the people. Even the elective principle has been to some degree preserved amongst their village communities. If, therefore, we found ourselves upon what already exists, and Nr- 8068ndeavour to expand it to such proportions as may seem commensurate with ынапшеп.
Page 478 - ... chose, but he also enjoyed, as I have shown, the sympathies of nearly every section of the native population Arabi did not acquire and preserve his influence by terrorism, for at the commencement he had no power to injure any one, and during the whole time of his power he never caused a single individual to be beheaded, hanged or shot. If he had gone to the poll with Tewfik and all corrupt practices had been excluded, he would have obtained tho votes of an overwhelming majority of the free and...
Page 447 - The chief requirement of Egypt is justice. A pure, cheap, and simple system of justice will prove more beneficial to the country than the largest Constitutional privileges. The structure of society in the East is so simple that, provided the taxes are righteously assessed, it does not require much law-making to make the people happy ; but the most elaborate legislation would fail to do so if the laws invented for them were not equitably enforced.
Page 454 - ... official accounts of cruelties inflicted on the Mohammedan population ; cruelties very far short of those which it had itself commanded and rewarded, but still utterly detestable. To these utterances, except by a few fanatics, little heed was given ; for the world had learned, on conclusive evidence, that the arts of falsehood have received a portentous development in Turkey, and have become the very basis and mainspring, so to say, of Ottoman official speech. As late as on the 15th of July the...
Page 323 - Bliicher and your Grace, you would enter into any engagement whereby it should be presumed that his Most Christian Majesty was absolutely precluded from the just exercise of his authority in bringing to condign punishment such of his subjects as had, by their treasonable machinations and unprovoked rebellion, forfeited all claim to his Majesty's clemency and forbearance...
Page 450 - Such a catastrophe would he the signal for the return of confusion to this country and renewed discord in Europe. At the present moment we are labouring in the interests of the world at large. The desideratum of everyone is an Egypt peaceful, prosperous, and contented, able to pay its debts, capable of maintaining order along the Canal, and offering no excuse in the troubled condition of its affairs for interference from outside. France, Turkey...