Ivan Vejeeghen: Or, Life in Russia |
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... readers , and thus to hurt the main object for which a book of this sort , like the razors in the fable , is made ; that is — to sell . On the other hand , by giving to a foreign production all the characteristics of the vernacular ...
... readers , and thus to hurt the main object for which a book of this sort , like the razors in the fable , is made ; that is — to sell . On the other hand , by giving to a foreign production all the characteristics of the vernacular ...
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... reader will find these out by far more readily than the unpractised wri- ter ; but it will be very agreeable if , after all , he shall be adjudged not to have deserved ill of that best of republics- the Republic of Letters . Aberdeen ...
... reader will find these out by far more readily than the unpractised wri- ter ; but it will be very agreeable if , after all , he shall be adjudged not to have deserved ill of that best of republics- the Republic of Letters . Aberdeen ...
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... reader is probably aware , that Russia is divided into pro- vinces called Gubernias , or governments , and that in the chief town of each province , there is a governor , police - master , procureur , and courts of law . These ...
... reader is probably aware , that Russia is divided into pro- vinces called Gubernias , or governments , and that in the chief town of each province , there is a governor , police - master , procureur , and courts of law . These ...
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... reader may not be astonished why they kept me in the house like a wild beast . Besides , we shall have an opportunity here- after of meeting with some of the persons here mentioned , and on that account a previous acquaintance will be ...
... reader may not be astonished why they kept me in the house like a wild beast . Besides , we shall have an opportunity here- after of meeting with some of the persons here mentioned , and on that account a previous acquaintance will be ...
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... readers , that , without regarding the freedom of intercourse , perhaps no where in the world are there so many virtuous young women as in Poland , believe it who will . Of married women I make no mention , because because that it not ...
... readers , that , without regarding the freedom of intercourse , perhaps no where in the world are there so many virtuous young women as in Poland , believe it who will . Of married women I make no mention , because because that it not ...
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Page 192 - But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest : for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.