The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Том 5Published for the proprietors, 1836 |
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... officer Strahlemberg , who was taken prisoner in the battle of Pultowa , and lived fifteen years in Siberia , and made the entire tour of that country . He says , that there are still some remains of an ancient people , whose skin is ...
... officer Strahlemberg , who was taken prisoner in the battle of Pultowa , and lived fifteen years in Siberia , and made the entire tour of that country . He says , that there are still some remains of an ancient people , whose skin is ...
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... officers gave them a sum of money , which was something more than the custom . While the Strelitzes thus began to make them- selves formidable , the princess Sophia , who se- cretly encouraged them , in order to lead them by degrees ...
... officers gave them a sum of money , which was something more than the custom . While the Strelitzes thus began to make them- selves formidable , the princess Sophia , who se- cretly encouraged them , in order to lead them by degrees ...
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... officer , who was taken prisoner at the battle of Pultowa , and continued many years at the court of czar Peter , the following account of the true cause of this extraordinary kind of hydrophobia . When Peter was about five years of age ...
... officer , who was taken prisoner at the battle of Pultowa , and continued many years at the court of czar Peter , the following account of the true cause of this extraordinary kind of hydrophobia . When Peter was about five years of age ...
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... officers ; but , in order to teach these young noblemen a subordina- tion , to which they were wholly unaccustomed , he made them pass through all the different military degrees , and himself set them the example , by serving first as a ...
... officers ; but , in order to teach these young noblemen a subordina- tion , to which they were wholly unaccustomed , he made them pass through all the different military degrees , and himself set them the example , by serving first as a ...
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... officers belonging to the train , and none but fo- reign engineers and pilots . This Jacob had been condemned to the bastinade , or knout , by Schein , the Russian general . At that time rigorous dis- cipline was thought to be the only ...
... officers belonging to the train , and none but fo- reign engineers and pilots . This Jacob had been condemned to the bastinade , or knout , by Schein , the Russian general . At that time rigorous dis- cipline was thought to be the only ...
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