He was about fifty-five years of age.
Those of age to become pages were too old, for the beast twisted their impure hearts and made them attack us.
He was still at college in Vienna when the sudden death of his father raised him to the Khedivate; and he was barely of age according to Turkish law, which fixes majority at eighteen in cases of succession to the throne.
He retired from service in 1684, on the ground of age and ill-health.
All male citizens above twenty-one years of age have the right of suffrage, subject to a residence of one year in the state and sixty days in the county in which they offer to vote.
