"Cosmopolitanism" Quotes from Famous Books
... opening the linen envelope while he surveyed the messenger. The liberty, it must be remarked, was not a usual preliminary in the great city, the cosmopolitanism of which had been long established; that is to say, a face, a figure, or a mode, to gain a second look from one of its denizens, had then, as it has now, to be grossly outlandish. In this instance the owner of the stall indulged ... — The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 1 • Lew. Wallace |