The Englishwoman in Russia; impressions of the society and manners of the Russians at home, by a lady two years resident in that country |
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... give your own portrait to a friend , and therefore he had begged M. M- to accept his . M. M-- also related to us the extreme kindness he had experienced from some of these uncivilized races . He was attacked with a severe fever , owing ...
... give your own portrait to a friend , and therefore he had begged M. M- to accept his . M. M-- also related to us the extreme kindness he had experienced from some of these uncivilized races . He was attacked with a severe fever , owing ...
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... give upon all extraordinary occasions . As we were stepping into the boat the peasants gave us a parting cheer , and far away , when the village was quite lost to our view in the distance , we heard their wild voices still singing in ...
... give upon all extraordinary occasions . As we were stepping into the boat the peasants gave us a parting cheer , and far away , when the village was quite lost to our view in the distance , we heard their wild voices still singing in ...
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... give them such blows on the ears with their post - horn as to make one feel sick at heart to think that any human being was obliged to endure so great an indignity , and that without the hope of redress . The mode in which they live I ...
... give them such blows on the ears with their post - horn as to make one feel sick at heart to think that any human being was obliged to endure so great an indignity , and that without the hope of redress . The mode in which they live I ...
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... gives a more dreary idea of a country than the sight of a broad and silent river , whose unbroken surface reflects no human habitation as far as the eye can reach , not a single bark to ruffle the mysterious stillness of the waters ...
... gives a more dreary idea of a country than the sight of a broad and silent river , whose unbroken surface reflects no human habitation as far as the eye can reach , not a single bark to ruffle the mysterious stillness of the waters ...
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... give them such blows on the ears with their post - horn as to make one feel sick at heart to think that any human being was obliged to endure so great an indignity , and that without the hope of redress . The mode in which they live I ...
... give them such blows on the ears with their post - horn as to make one feel sick at heart to think that any human being was obliged to endure so great an indignity , and that without the hope of redress . The mode in which they live I ...
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