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Show The Unspeakable Turk. . This expression cumo Into general . use during the Bulgarian agitation of 1876, on its appenrnnce In a published letter of Cnrlyle s to George Howard, M. P., dated November 24: "The unspeakable un-speakable Turk should be Immediately struck out of the question, and the country left to honest European guidance." guid-ance." It was not the first time, however, how-ever, that Carlyle had made use of It. In 1831, nearly fifty years before, In "The Westminster Review," No. 29, In an article on the "Nlbelungen Lied," he makes mention of "that unspeakable unspeak-able Turk, King Muchahol." |