 | 1810 - 538 pages
...afford of the state of Rust. sia ! It is thus we behold the subjects of -a vast empire, stripped of nil they possess, and existing in the most abject servitude...torture — of sorrow and poverty— of sickness and faTraversing the provinces south of Moscow, the land ii as the garden of Eden ; a fine soil, covered... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1810 - 462 pages
...picture do these facts afford of the state of Russia! It is thus we behold the subjects of a vast empire, stripped of all they possess, and existing in the...apparently smiling in plenty. Enter the cottage of the poollabourer, surrounded by all these riches, and you find him dying of hunger, or pining from bad... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 648 pages
...do these facts afford of the state of Russia! It is thus wo behold the subjects of a var.t empire, stripped of all they possess, and existing in the...Enter the cottage of the poor labourer, surrounded hy all these riches, and you will find him dying with hunger, or pining from bad food ; and in want... | |
 | 1811 - 566 pages
...emancipate the girl, upon which Dr. Clarke observes, ' It is thus we behold the subjects of a vast empire stripped of all they possess, and existing in the...abject servitude, victims of tyranny and torture; of sonow and poverty; of sickness and famine.' Now we think that this sweeping inference cannot fairly... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - Asia - 1813 - 512 pages
...picture do these facts afford of the state of Russia ! Itis thus we behold the subjects of a vast empire, stripped of all they possess, and existing in the...Traversing the provinces south of Moscow, the land i? as the garden of Eden ; a fine soil, covered with corn, and apparently smiling in plenty. Enter... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - Europe - 1816 - 600 pages
...to severer privations, than the most wretched vassals of any other system of despotism upon earth. Traversing the provinces south of Moscow, the land...covered with corn, and apparently smiling in plenty : but enter into the cottage of the poor labourer, who is surrounded by all these riches, and you find... | |
 | William Drown, Solomon Drowne - Agriculture - 1824 - 298 pages
...is thus," says Dr. Clarke, " we behold the subjects of a vast empire stripped of all they possess, existing in the most abject servitude ; victims of...of sickness and famine." Traversing the provinces of Muscovy," he continues, " the land appears as the garden of Eden, a fine soil, covered with- corn,... | |
 | Robert Lyall - Caucasus - 1825 - 560 pages
...behold the subjects of a vast empire, stripped of all they possess, and existing in the most aoject servitude ; victims of tyranny and torture ; of sorrow and poverty ; of sickness and famine." * To pretend that such instances of injustice and cruelty do not occur with some of a privileged, *... | |
 | Robert Lyall - Caucasus - 1825 - 562 pages
...behold the subjects of a vast empire, stripped of all they possess, and existing in the most aoject servitude ; victims of tyranny and torture ; of sorrow and poverty ; of sickness and famine." * To pretend that such instances of injustice and cruelty do not occur with some of a privileged, and... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Geography - 1826 - 480 pages
...afford of the state of Pvussia ! It ig Ums we behold the subiects of a vast empire, stripped of аИ they possess, and existing in the most abject servitude...Traversing the provinces south of Moscow, the land is as tte'jcafdec {¿.Eden ; a fine soil, covered with corn, and apparently 'smiling- in фркгу. fnteY... | |
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The tyrant took the ransom; and then told the father, that both the g-irl and the money belonged to him; and, therefore, she must still continue among the number of his slaves. What a picture do these facts afford of the state of Russia! 
