Those that are exposed to sale at the markets are always either guilty of some crime, or so entirely worthless that they are of no use at all.

I am afraid you will doubt the truth of this account, which I own is very different from our common notions in England; but it is no less truth for all that.
"Your whole letter is full of mistakes from one end to the other.

I see you have taken your ideas of Turkey from that worthy author Dumont, who has written with equal ignorance and confidence.

'Tis a particular pleasure to me here, to read the voyages to the Levant, which are generally so far removed from the truth, and so full of absurdities, I am very well diverted with them.

They never fail giving you an account of the women, whom 'tis certain they never saw, and talking very wisely of the genius of the men, into whose company they are never admitted; and very often describe mosques, which they dare not peep into.