View of the Russian Empire: During the Reign of Catharine, the Second, and to the Close of the Eighteenth Century, 2. kötetP. Wogan, 1801 |
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4. oldal
... will fometimes lift and carry things which the utmost exertions of three Ruffians would feem fcarcely to move . lively old men of a hundred years are in all lively 4 CHARACTERISTICS OF and fo impoffible to be mistaken, that the form ...
... will fometimes lift and carry things which the utmost exertions of three Ruffians would feem fcarcely to move . lively old men of a hundred years are in all lively 4 CHARACTERISTICS OF and fo impoffible to be mistaken, that the form ...
5. oldal
... hundred years are in all parts . of Ruflia no unufual appearance , but probably the number of them would be far greater if the propenfity to dram - drinking were not the occafion of fo great a mortality in the middle periods of life ...
... hundred years are in all parts . of Ruflia no unufual appearance , but probably the number of them would be far greater if the propenfity to dram - drinking were not the occafion of fo great a mortality in the middle periods of life ...
7. oldal
... hundred and feventy of thefe edifices , that in point of magni- ficence and tafte might pafs for mafter - pieces of art ; and which were doomed in after - times to be demo- lifhed by the Goths , or converted into churches by bishops ...
... hundred and feventy of thefe edifices , that in point of magni- ficence and tafte might pafs for mafter - pieces of art ; and which were doomed in after - times to be demo- lifhed by the Goths , or converted into churches by bishops ...
10. oldal
... hundred years together had no phyficians but only baths , and that to this day a multitude of nations cure almost all their maladies merely by baths ; we can- not avoid regarding the difmiffion of them as the epocha of a grand ...
... hundred years together had no phyficians but only baths , and that to this day a multitude of nations cure almost all their maladies merely by baths ; we can- not avoid regarding the difmiffion of them as the epocha of a grand ...
22. oldal
... hundred , nay two hun- dred , or even four hundred verfts diftant ; where it is fold , not by measure , but by weight ; rye and wheat as well as meal , in mat - facks of eight pood , and , especially in Siberia , at an inconceivably low ...
... hundred , nay two hun- dred , or even four hundred verfts diftant ; where it is fold , not by measure , but by weight ; rye and wheat as well as meal , in mat - facks of eight pood , and , especially in Siberia , at an inconceivably low ...
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333. oldal - ... their skins. They were so ravenous, that with one hand we could hold to them a piece of flesh, and with a stick or axe in the other could knock them on the head.
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