The North British Review, Volumen41W. P. Kennedy, 1864 |
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... RUSSIA UNDER ALEXANDER II . , 1. Eastern Europe and Western Asia . By H. A. Tilley . London : Longmans , 1864 . 2. L ... Russians at Home . By Sutherland Edwards . W. H. Allen & Co. London , 1861 . 339669 134 ART . VI . THE SCOTCH LAWYER ...
... RUSSIA UNDER ALEXANDER II . , 1. Eastern Europe and Western Asia . By H. A. Tilley . London : Longmans , 1864 . 2. L ... Russians at Home . By Sutherland Edwards . W. H. Allen & Co. London , 1861 . 339669 134 ART . VI . THE SCOTCH LAWYER ...
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... Russians to write or edit their version of the events which the cultivated world have hitherto been obliged to learn almost exclusively from French and Eng- lish histories ; histories differing so essentially , that a mediator of ...
... Russians to write or edit their version of the events which the cultivated world have hitherto been obliged to learn almost exclusively from French and Eng- lish histories ; histories differing so essentially , that a mediator of ...
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... Russians , and describe the main features of the siege from their point of view ; a course of proceeding which we are led to adopt , as well by the pre - existing lack of information from Russian sources , as by the form and character ...
... Russians , and describe the main features of the siege from their point of view ; a course of proceeding which we are led to adopt , as well by the pre - existing lack of information from Russian sources , as by the form and character ...
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... Russia should be perused with caution ; although there is little fear of her succeeding in passing herself off as the most inoffensive and least grasping of the Great Powers . Gene- ral Todleben , however , insists that she played the ...
... Russia should be perused with caution ; although there is little fear of her succeeding in passing herself off as the most inoffensive and least grasping of the Great Powers . Gene- ral Todleben , however , insists that she played the ...
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... Russians in any quarter ; and as for Silistria , that the siege was raised solely because Marshal Prince Paskievitch's lines of communi- cation were commanded by the Austrians , whose intentions were unknown . He says " A great deal has ...
... Russians in any quarter ; and as for Silistria , that the siege was raised solely because Marshal Prince Paskievitch's lines of communi- cation were commanded by the Austrians , whose intentions were unknown . He says " A great deal has ...
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