 | Asia - 1840 - 734 pages
...mind. I had applied a standard of judgment which necessarily presented a false measurement. Malm rr observation showed me the incorrectness of my results,...the institutions and character of a people of whose particular genius I knew nothing. His good sense, which had taught him the source of his ignorance,... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 536 pages
...observation showed me the incorrectness f my results, and led me at once to the cause. I had ssumed the office of a judge without having learned the rules of right judgment. ..... 34 TRAVELS IN THE BAST. " I endeavoured, to place myself in the position of an unprejudiced inquirer,... | |
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... 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 when six months had passed, I found that I knew next to nothing of the object of... 