Stories from Russia, Siberia, Poland and CircassiaRussell Lee T. Nelson, 1853 - 444 sider |
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Side 11
... heads , or to submit to the still crueller punishment of the knout . In this respect , indeed , his court in no degree dif- fered from that of the most arbitary Oriental despot ; and his modes of selecting his favourites , and punish ...
... heads , or to submit to the still crueller punishment of the knout . In this respect , indeed , his court in no degree dif- fered from that of the most arbitary Oriental despot ; and his modes of selecting his favourites , and punish ...
Side 13
... a Scottish gentleman whom he had raised to that rank , to command his guards , and secure his capital from insurrection or disturbance during his absence . He was accordingly placed at the head of four thousand picked PETER THE GREAT . 13.
... a Scottish gentleman whom he had raised to that rank , to command his guards , and secure his capital from insurrection or disturbance during his absence . He was accordingly placed at the head of four thousand picked PETER THE GREAT . 13.
Side 14
Russell Lee. was accordingly placed at the head of four thousand picked men , and he executed the trust imposed in him so ably , that there can be no question the Czar owed to him the safety of his government and the preservation of his ...
Russell Lee. was accordingly placed at the head of four thousand picked men , and he executed the trust imposed in him so ably , that there can be no question the Czar owed to him the safety of his government and the preservation of his ...
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... head and arms . ' Peter caught hold of a tooth with the instrument , which he supposed to be the bad one , and drew it out with great expertness . A few days after this , Peter learned from some of the house- hold , that the poor ...
... head and arms . ' Peter caught hold of a tooth with the instrument , which he supposed to be the bad one , and drew it out with great expertness . A few days after this , Peter learned from some of the house- hold , that the poor ...
Side 22
... head painted and put up as his sign , and the house which occupies the site still continues in use as a tavern , with its old sign of the Czar of Muscovy . Some of the anecdotes told of the Czar while in England are sufficiently ...
... head painted and put up as his sign , and the house which occupies the site still continues in use as a tavern , with its old sign of the Czar of Muscovy . Some of the anecdotes told of the Czar while in England are sufficiently ...
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Achulko Anapa ancient appearance arms army beautiful Black Sea Bogdan Boleslas bound in cloth bridges capital Caucasian Caucasus character chief church Circassians civilization Cloth gilt command Cossacks crime Crimea cross crown Czar despotic Emperor empire Empress enemy Engravings escape Europe exiles favour Foolscap 8vo force foreign French Gilt leaves Grabbe grand Gulf of Finland hand head hetman honour horses hundred imperial John Casimir king lady Lake Ladoga means military Morocco elegant Moscow mountain Muscovite nations nearly Neatly bound Neva night nobles officers palace passed Peter Petersburg Poland Poles Polish present priests Prince Prince Potemkin prisoners rank retreat river Royal 32mo Russian Russian empire sacred Salta says scene Schamil seemed seen serfs Siberia side singular soldiers soon story struggle Tartars thousand tion took town traveller tribes troops Turks Ukraine valley vast whole
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Side 239 - KOSCIUSKO fell! The sun went down, nor ceased the carnage there. Tumultuous Murder shook the midnight air — On Prague's proud arch...
Side 239 - Heaven ! he cried, my bleeding country save ! — Is there no hand on high to shield the brave ? Yet, though destruction sweep those lovely plains, Rise, fellow-men ! our country yet remains ! By that dread name, we wave the sword on high ! And swear for her to live ! — with her to die...
Side 240 - Departed spirits of the mighty dead! Ye that at Marathon and Leuctra bled! Friends of the world! restore your swords to man, Fight in his sacred cause, and lead the van! Yet for Sarmatia's tears of blood atone, And make her arm puissant as your own! Oh! once again to Freedom's cause return The patriot TELL — the BRUCE OF BANNOCKBURN!
Side 239 - Firm-paced and slow, a horrid front they form, Still as the breeze, but dreadful as the storm. Low murmuring sounds along their banners fly, Revenge or death...
Side 239 - Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime ; Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe...
Side 313 - The weak and helpless either shrunk back from the fray, and sat down to wait their fate at a distance, or, mixing in it, were thrust over the bridges, crushed under carriages, cut down perhaps with sabres, or trampled to death under the feet of their countrymen. All this while the action continued with fury, and, as if the Heavens meant to match their wrath with that of man, a hurricane arose, and added terrors to a scene which was already of a character sodreadful.
Side 53 - ... nothing for two days before. Carpenters and shipwrights sit next to the Czar, but senators, ministers, generals, priests, sailors, buffoons of all kinds, sit pell-mell without any distinction. ' ' The first course consists of nothing but cold meats, among which are hams, dried tongues, and the like, which not being liable to such tricks as shall be mentioned hereafter, strangers ordinarily make their whole meal of them, without tasting anything else, though, generally speaking, every one takes...
Side 288 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Side 238 - Pealed her loud drum, and twanged her trumpet horn ; Tumultuous horror brooded o'er her van, Presaging wrath to Poland — and to man ! Warsaw's last champion from her height surveyed, Wide o'er the fields, a waste of ruin laid; Oh, Heaven ! he cried, my bleeding country save ! Is there no hand on high to shield the brave?
Side 54 - Russian does not care to mix the sauces of the different dishes together, he pours the soup that is left in his plate either into the dish or into his neighbour's plate, or even under the table, after which he licks his .plate clean with his finger, and, last of all, wipes it with the tablecloth.