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, Svazek 3Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 - Počet stran: 360 |
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Strana 335 - Europe," they say at Petersburg, "is following the road that Poland took; she is enervating herself by a vain liberalism, whilst we continue powerful precisely because we are not free: let us be patient under the yoke; others shall someday pay for our shame.
Strana 334 - ... miseries of a whole nation, ferments in the heart of the Russian people. That nation, essentially aggressive, greedy under the influence of privation, expiates beforehand, by a debasing submission, the design of exercising a tyranny over other nations: the glory, the riches which it hopes for, consoles it for the disgrace to which it submits.
Strana 103 - ... large stones and enormous stumps of trees, that are very destructive to the carriages. Such are the roads of this land, except during seasons when they become absolutely impassable, when the extreme of cold renders travelling dangerous, when storms of snow bury the country, or when floods, produced by the thaw, transform, for about three months in the year, the low plains into lakes; namely, for about six weeks after the summer, and for as many after the winter season ; the rest of the year they...
Strana 334 - An ambition inordinate and immense, one of those ambitions which could only possibly spring in the bosoms of the oppressed, and could only find nourishment in the miseries of a whole nation, ferments in the heart of the Russian people. That nation, essentially aggressive, greedy under the influence of privation, expiates beforehand, by a debasing submission, the design of exercising a tyranny over other nations: the glory, the riches, which it hopes for...
Strana 56 - Let every soul be subject to the higher powers — the powers that be are ordained of God.
Strana 335 - Europe a prey which our dissensions will sooner or later yield to it : she foments anarchy among us in the hope of profiting by a corruption which she favours because it is favourable to her views : it is the history of Poland recommencing on a larger scale. For many years past Paris has read revolutionary journals paid by Russia,
Strana 351 - If ever your sons should be discontented with France, try my recipe; tell them to go to Russia. It is a useful journey for every foreigner: whoever has well examined that country will be content to live anywhere else.
Strana i - DE CUSTINE.— THE EMPIRE OF THE CZAR; Or, Observations on the Social, Political, and Religious State of Russia, and its Prospects, made during a Journey through that Empire.
Strana 197 - I have seldom been more affected than I was yesterday, by the sight of these unhappy creatures, torn from the freedom of the desert, and violently separated from those they love.
Strana 322 - ... .Russia still remains farther from liberty, not in words, but in things, than most of the countries upon earth. To-morrow, in an insurrection, in the midst of massacre, by the light of a conflagration, the cry of freedom may spread to the frontiers of Siberia ; a blind and cruel people may murder their masters, may revolt against obscure tyrants, and dye the waters of the Volga with blood ; but they will not be any the more free : barbarism is in itself a yoke. The best means of emancipating...