One of the episcopal clergymen who attended him went to the edge of the scaffold, and called out in a loud voice, "My lord dies a Protestant." "Yes,"
said the Earl, stepping forward, "and not only a protestant, but with a heart hatred of Popery, of Prelacy, and of all superstition." He then embraced
his friends, put into their hands some tokens of remembrance for his wife and children, kneeled down, laid his head on the block, prayed during a
few minutes, and gave the signal to the executioner.
- The death of the Earl of Argylle
Re: The Great Turk
Originally Posted by LeftEyeNine
Modern Turkish language still includes a lot of Ottoman words, the "purification" was mostly about the alphabet, not the language itself. And this contributes to the language's richness a lot, at least I have no problem with Farssi and Arabic-origin words we still use today in Turkish.
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