The unspeakable Turk should be immediately struck out of the question, and the country be left to honest European guidance.

[The Ottoman Empire] has the body of a sick old man, who tried to appear healthy, although his end was near.

Your Majesty may think me an impatient sick man, and that the Turks are even sicker.

[The Ottoman Empire] whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

We have on out hands a sick man,--a very sick man. [The sick man of Europe, the Turk.]

The Lofty Gate of the Royal Tent.