The Empire of the Czar; Or, Observations on the Social, Political, and Religious State and Prospects of Russia: Made During a Journey Through that Empire, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 - Russia |
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... history , their manners , and their physiognomy ; in a word , to travel , is to procure for my curiosity an inexhaust- ible aliment , to supply my thoughts with an eternal impulse of activity : to prevent my surveying the world would be ...
... history , their manners , and their physiognomy ; in a word , to travel , is to procure for my curiosity an inexhaust- ible aliment , to supply my thoughts with an eternal impulse of activity : to prevent my surveying the world would be ...
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... history impart . I examined objects , I observed facts and individuals , while candidly permitting daily experience to modify my opinions . Very few exclusive political notions incommoded me in this spontaneous labour , in which ...
... history impart . I examined objects , I observed facts and individuals , while candidly permitting daily experience to modify my opinions . Very few exclusive political notions incommoded me in this spontaneous labour , in which ...
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... History . Journey of Madame de Custine to Switzer- land . - Ballad of Le Rosier . - Lavater . - Madame de Custine under the Empire . — Her Friends . — Death in 1826. Page 25 ― Holstein Fishermen . CHAPTER IV . - - Conversation at Lubeck ...
... History . Journey of Madame de Custine to Switzer- land . - Ballad of Le Rosier . - Lavater . - Madame de Custine under the Empire . — Her Friends . — Death in 1826. Page 25 ― Holstein Fishermen . CHAPTER IV . - - Conversation at Lubeck ...
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... Historical Romance . Marriage of Peter the Great . • -- ― Romodanowski . - Influence of the Greek Church in Russia . - Tyranny supported by Falsehood . - Corpse in the Church of Revel . - The Emperor Alexander deceived . - Russian Sen ...
... Historical Romance . Marriage of Peter the Great . • -- ― Romodanowski . - Influence of the Greek Church in Russia . - Tyranny supported by Falsehood . - Corpse in the Church of Revel . - The Emperor Alexander deceived . - Russian Sen ...
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... history of my family , with which I was unacquainted , and from which I derived much gratification . This I admit without hesitation , for that pious admiration with which we contemplate the heroism of our fathers ought not to be ...
... history of my family , with which I was unacquainted , and from which I derived much gratification . This I admit without hesitation , for that pious admiration with which we contemplate the heroism of our fathers ought not to be ...
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