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Once fairly in the steamer , M. de Custine loses no time in tossing his remaining pro - Russian fancies overboard ; but he calls . potent aid to his help in this work . Among the passengers is a Russian prince - the Marquis says he ...
Once fairly in the steamer , M. de Custine loses no time in tossing his remaining pro - Russian fancies overboard ; but he calls . potent aid to his help in this work . Among the passengers is a Russian prince - the Marquis says he ...
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Three hun- dred and fifty thousand volumes of foreign books were imported into Russia in that year , one - half of which were ... but they learn a few phrases of Russian , which they repeat when the emperor passes within hearing .
Three hun- dred and fifty thousand volumes of foreign books were imported into Russia in that year , one - half of which were ... but they learn a few phrases of Russian , which they repeat when the emperor passes within hearing .
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... after the lapse of 100 years , a subject on which nobody in Russia dares either to write or speak . ... printed Transactions of the Russian Academy ' the very document relied on by Karamsin in the standard work on Russian history ?
... after the lapse of 100 years , a subject on which nobody in Russia dares either to write or speak . ... printed Transactions of the Russian Academy ' the very document relied on by Karamsin in the standard work on Russian history ?
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A Description of the Canals and Railroads of | 5 |
IntimeMouvement LittérairePortraits 17891836 | 375 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 73 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1843 |
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