Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 63John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1864 |
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... RUSSIA . THE autobiography of the second Cath- | arine has become familiar to English read- ers through the exertions of Mr. Herzen : and a very wonderful story it is . The story of her predecessor is , however , even more surprising ...
... RUSSIA . THE autobiography of the second Cath- | arine has become familiar to English read- ers through the exertions of Mr. Herzen : and a very wonderful story it is . The story of her predecessor is , however , even more surprising ...
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... not hurt her , and seized her hand , which he squeezed so hard that she screamed for mercy ; at which Peter laughed , and said that she had more delicate bones than his | been 32 [ September , CATHARINE THE FIRST , EMPRESS OF RUSSIA .
... not hurt her , and seized her hand , which he squeezed so hard that she screamed for mercy ; at which Peter laughed , and said that she had more delicate bones than his | been 32 [ September , CATHARINE THE FIRST , EMPRESS OF RUSSIA .
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... Russia for the melan- choly catastrophe of his son Alexei . We have directly opposed testimony as to the share Catharine had in this occurrence . Those authors who are generally disposed to judge the czarina favorably , declare that she ...
... Russia for the melan- choly catastrophe of his son Alexei . We have directly opposed testimony as to the share Catharine had in this occurrence . Those authors who are generally disposed to judge the czarina favorably , declare that she ...
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... thousand bottles of wine were emptied ; the czar taking such a large share that he was obliged to keep his bed for some time . Hardly recovered , he went to Schlüssel- | my thirst 34 [ September , CATHARINE THE FIRST , EMPRESS OF RUSSIA .
... thousand bottles of wine were emptied ; the czar taking such a large share that he was obliged to keep his bed for some time . Hardly recovered , he went to Schlüssel- | my thirst 34 [ September , CATHARINE THE FIRST , EMPRESS OF RUSSIA .
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... gives us the following account of the way in which Catharine I. was secured on the throne On the evening before Peter's death , Ja- guschinski , who had heard of the agitation | found 1864. ] 35 CATHARINE THE FIRST , EMPRESS OF RUSSIA .
... gives us the following account of the way in which Catharine I. was secured on the throne On the evening before Peter's death , Ja- guschinski , who had heard of the agitation | found 1864. ] 35 CATHARINE THE FIRST , EMPRESS OF RUSSIA .
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Página 130 - Artesian wells had been opened, around which, as vegetation thrives luxuriantly, thirty thousand palm-trees and one thousand fruit-trees were planted, and two thriving villages established. At the depth of a little over five hundred feet, an underground river or lake was struck, and from two of them live fish have been thrown up, showing that there was a large body of water underneath. The French government, by this means, hopes to make the route across the desert, to Timbuctoo, fertile, and fit...