At first their humor derives mostly from the fact that Usbek and Rica misinterpret what they see.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baron de Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat] Reference

In these reflections Usbek seems to be a thoughtful and enlightened observer with a deep commitment to justice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baron de Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat] Reference

In later letters, Usbek and Rica no longer misinterpret what they see; however, they find the actions of Europeans no less incomprehensible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baron de Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat] Reference

However, one of the great themes of the Persian Letters is the virtual impossibility of self-knowledge, and Usbek is its most fully realized illustration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baron de Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat] Reference

The Persian Letters is an epistolary novel consisting of letters sent to and from two fictional Persians, Usbek and Rica, who set out for Europe in 1711 and remain there at least until 1720, when the novel ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baron de Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat] Reference

No one was fooled; these were Parisian letters, and the Persian travelers, Rica and Usbek, mere stand-ins for an author taking stock of his homeland after the death of Louis XIV and the coming of an age of enlightenment and skepticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Information Age / By L. Gordon Crovitz] Reference

No one was fooled, these were Parisian letters, and the Persian travelers, Rica and Usbek, mere stand-ins for an author taking stock of his homeland after the death of Louis XIV and the coming of an age of enlightenment and skepticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anti-Americanism Is Mostly Hype] Reference

Usbek is particularly given to such musings, and he shares many of Montesquieu's own preoccupations: with the contrast between European and non-European societies, the advantages and disadvantages of different systems of government, the nature of political authority, and the proper role of law.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baron de Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat] Reference

Usbek, the Persian of Montesquieu, is one of the profoundest philosophers, his letters are, however, but concise pages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions] Reference

Yet he is faithful to the food which regaled the old Scythians in the heroic age of Greece, and which is prized by the Usbek of the present day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity] Reference

From there he passed to the Crimea and thence to Sarai, carrying papal letters to Usbek, Khan of Kiptchak, who sent an escort with him as far as Armalec, where he arrived in the winter of 1340.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement]] Reference

Rather than see his country ruined, the patriotic prince determined to disobey, and to offer himself as a victim by seeking alone the camp of Usbek, the great khan, a mission of infinite danger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality] Reference

The "Lettres Persanes" are, as their name suggests, the supposed correspondence of two rich Persians, Usbek and Rica, traveling in France and exchanging letters with their friends and their eunuchs in Persia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eve of the French Revolution] Reference

Ukrainian IBF and WBO heavyweight champion Vladimir Klitschko celebrates after defeating Usbek challenger Ruslan Chagaev after their heavyweight world championship boxing fight on June 20, 2009 in at the Veltins-Arena Gelsenkirchen.    From Wordnik.com.  [FanHouse] Reference

However, that process is by no means yet guaranteed, with Red & White Holdings - backed by Usbek oligarch Alisher Usmanov - stating they have no intention of selling a 27% stake, while the Arsenal Supporters Trust have stressed all of their minority shareholders will not sell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Standard - Home] Reference

Usbek's favorite wife and the only one whose virtue he trusted, is found with another man; her lover is killed, and she commits suicide after writing Usbek a scathing letter in which she asks: "How could you have thought me credulous enough to imagine that I was in the world only in order to worship your caprices? that while you allowed yourself everything, you had the right to thwart all my desires?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baron de Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat] Reference

Usbek is, in other words, a despot in his home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baron de Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat] Reference

As also an Epistle from Usbek, the Persian, to Joshua Ward, Esq. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century; comprizing biographical memoirs of William Bowyer, printer, F. S. A.] Reference

He found Usbek bitterly bent on war, and for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality] Reference

Usbek, 78.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cult of Incompetence] Reference