Travels in Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark: Illustrated with Charts and Engravings, المجلد 2T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1802 |
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الصفحة 100 - Notwithstanding which," the same author observes, " the work went on with such expedition, that it was surprising to see the fortress raised within less than five months, though the earth, which is very scarce thereabouts, was, for the greater part, carried by the labourers in the skirts of their clothes, and in bags made of rags and old mats, the use of wheelbarrows being then unknown to them...
الصفحة 84 - The prefent town is furrounded by a rampart of earth, with a range of old towers at regular diftances, forming a circumference of fcarcely a mile and an half; and even this inconfiderable circle includes much open fpace, and many houfes which are not inhabited.
الصفحة 73 - Russes in the rest of their journey so willingly done that they began to quarrel, yea, and to fight also in striving and contending which of them should put their...
الصفحة 300 - was able to do : me infpired him with that " humanity, which, in the opinion of his " fubjects, nature feemed to have denied him. " A word from her mouth in favour of a *
الصفحة 129 - At length, a little before twelve, the chief officers of the houfehold, the miftrefs of the robes, the maidS of honour, and other ladies of the bed-chamber, advancing two by two in a long train, announced the approach of their fovereign. Her Majefty came forward with a flow and folemn pace, walking with great pomp, holding her head very high ; and perpetually bowing to the right and to the left as fhe parTed along. She ftopped a little within the entrance of the drawing-room, and fpoke with great...
الصفحة 82 - It is the chiefest and greatest mart-town of all Muscovy; and albeit the emperor's seat is not there, but at Moscow, yet the commodiousness of the river, falling into that gulf which is called Sinus Finnicus, whereby it is well frequented by merchants, makes it more famous than Moscow itself.
الصفحة 292 - Then, after a short pause, she artfully added, " If the grand-duke will profit by my instructions, perhaps I shall have the consolation, during my wretched widowhood, of forming for you an emperor worthy of the blood and the name of him whom you have now...
الصفحة 311 - ... over it : it was then carried out of the fort to the church of the Holy Trinity, where the...
الصفحة 256 - On the death of Ferdinand Ketler, in 1737, the emprefs difpatched general Bifmarck, governor of Riga, to Mittau, at the head of a con-fiderable army. The nobles having...
الصفحة 137 - Holitein, in memory of his wife Anne, daughter of Peter the Great, and introduced into Ruffia by her fon Peter III. It is in the difpofal of the great-duke, as fovereign of Holftein. The knights wear a red ribband bordered with yellow. The military order of St. George, called alfo the order of Merit, and which has the precedence over that of St.