Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa: Russia, Tahtary, and TurkeyT. Cadell and W. Davies in the Strand, 1816 |
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... PETER THE GREAT - Inundation and product of the rivers— Increase of buildings - Arsenal - Commerce , internal and external - Wine of the Don - Change of manners , and of features - Neglect of drowned persons - Tumuli - Malo - Rus- sians ...
... PETER THE GREAT - Inundation and product of the rivers— Increase of buildings - Arsenal - Commerce , internal and external - Wine of the Don - Change of manners , and of features - Neglect of drowned persons - Tumuli - Malo - Rus- sians ...
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... PETER , or of CATHERINE ; under the tyranny of PAUL , or the mild government of ALEXANDER . These are facts , indeed , which a traveller may withhold : he may say , with Fonte- nelle , " If I had my hand full of truths , I would not ...
... PETER , or of CATHERINE ; under the tyranny of PAUL , or the mild government of ALEXANDER . These are facts , indeed , which a traveller may withhold : he may say , with Fonte- nelle , " If I had my hand full of truths , I would not ...
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... PETER I. and of the age of Louis XIV . was of opinion , that it was of greater importance to say what is useful than what is true ; as if what was false could ever be useful ! In a Letter to Count Schuvalof , he says , 6 Until I have ...
... PETER I. and of the age of Louis XIV . was of opinion , that it was of greater importance to say what is useful than what is true ; as if what was false could ever be useful ! In a Letter to Count Schuvalof , he says , 6 Until I have ...
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... Peter the Great to have it so made1 . The country is generally open , a wide and fearful prospect of hopeless sterility , where the fir and the dwarf birch , which cover even Arctic regions , scarcely find existence . The soil is , for ...
... Peter the Great to have it so made1 . The country is generally open , a wide and fearful prospect of hopeless sterility , where the fir and the dwarf birch , which cover even Arctic regions , scarcely find existence . The soil is , for ...
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... PETER THE GREAT , however , used to take his Boyars by the beard and all Petersburg knows that Potemkin boxed the ears of a Prince who presumed to applaud one of his jokes by clapping the hands : What , " said he , miscreant ! do you ...
... PETER THE GREAT , however , used to take his Boyars by the beard and all Petersburg knows that Potemkin boxed the ears of a Prince who presumed to applaud one of his jokes by clapping the hands : What , " said he , miscreant ! do you ...
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afford afterwards antient appearance archbishop Armenian arrived Ataman barks Black Sea brandy called Calmucks canal carriage Cataracts CATHERINE ceremony CHAP church colour common considerable covered Crimea Danaetz Dnieper Dniester Don Cossacks dress Dvina Emperor empire Empress England English Europe exhibited feet frequently Galitzin Greek hair Heber's horses houses hundred inhabitants inland journey koumiss Kremlin Ladoga Lake Lake Ilmen land manner mode Moscow nations navigable Niemen nobles Novogorod observed officers Onega Orlof painting palace passage passed peasants perhaps persons PETER Petersburg Podolia poud priest Prince principal procured provinces reign remarkable resembles Rivers falling rivulets roubles Russian Sea of Azof Siberia situation slaves sluices stanitzas steppes sterlet streets Taganrog Tahtars Tanaïs Tcherkask thousand timber tion town traveller Tula Tumuli Ukraine versts vessels village Vitegra Volga Volhynia Voyage Vyshney Voloshok whole wine women Woronetz СНАР
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الصفحة 424 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground : and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
الصفحة 352 - And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
الصفحة 74 - See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah : and I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship...
الصفحة 5 - Merely seeing the men work,' replied the nobleman. 'Oh! is that your employment? Take off his pelisse, and give him a spade ! There, now work yourself ! ' " When enraged, he lost all command of himself, which sometimes gave rise to very ludicrous scenes.
الصفحة 333 - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on.
الصفحة 147 - The large bell near the cathedral is only used on important occasions, and yields the finest and most solemn tone I ever heard. When it sounds, a deep and hollow murmur vibrates all over Moscow, like the fullest and lowest tones of a vast organ, or the rolling of distant thunder.
الصفحة 203 - ... two coffins, one of which is empty, and destined for the present archbishop ; the other contains the bones of the founder of the monastery, who is regarded as a saint. The oak coffin was almost bit to pieces by different persons afflicted with the tooth-ach, for which a rub on this board is a specific.
الصفحة 60 - Having passed, you look about, and wonder what is become of the city, or where you are; and are ready to ask, once more, How far is it to Moscow? They will tell you>
الصفحة 71 - Its vibrations seemed the rolling of distant thunder; and they were instantly accompanied by the noise of all the bells in Moscow. Every inhabitant was stirring, and the rattling of carriages in the streets was greater than at noon-day. The whole city was in a blaze; for lights were seen in all the windows, and innumerable torches in the streets.