All the Russias

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Heinemann, 1902 - 476 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 245 - Rejoicing, through the hush'd Chorasmian waste, Under the solitary moon : he flow'd Right for the Polar Star, past Orgunje, Brimming, and bright, and large : then sands begin To hem his watery march, and dam his streams, And split his currents ; that for many a league The shorn and parcell'd Oxus strains along Through beds of sand and matted rushy isles — Oxus forgetting the bright speed he had In his high mountain cradle in Pamere, A foil'd circuitous wanderer : — till at last The long'd-for...
Pàgina 280 - ... temperate Toorkmuns of the south, The Tukas, and the lances of Salore, And those from Attruck and the Caspian sands; Light men, and on light steeds, who only drink The acrid milk of camels, and their wells. And then a swarm of wandering horse, who came From far, and a more doubtful service...
Pàgina 447 - The High Contracting Parties agree that neither of them will, without consulting the other, enter into separate arrangements with another Power to the prejudice of the interests above described.
Pàgina 61 - For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away : but the Word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached unto you.
Pàgina 447 - If, in the above event, any other Power or Powers should join in hostilities against that ally, the other High Contracting Party will come to its assistance, and will conduct the war in common, and make peace in mutual agreement with it.
Pàgina 88 - That is clear, and it is final, so far as any law or treaty can be. Therefore, when Russia insists upon modifying, abolishing, or introducing fundamental conditions of Finnish national life without the consent of the Finnish Diet, she is acting illegally and unconstitutionally.
Pàgina 428 - I should regard the concession of a port upon the Persian Gulf to Russia by any Power as a deliberate insult to Great Britain, as a wanton rupture of the status quo, and as an intentional provocation to war ; and I should impeach the British Minister, who was guilty of acquiescing in such a surrender, as a traitor to his country.
Pàgina 428 - ... obstacles to be overcome, or in the opposition of the populations. It is allowable to add to these conjectured projects the common surmise of Russian design upon India. This, if entertained, would be an advance by the centre rather than by a flank ; but even here a study of the map would seem to show that progress through Persia would not only approach the gulf, but if successful would turn — would outflank — the mountains of Afghanistan, avoiding the difficulties presented by the severe...
Pàgina 36 - Corelia, of Foer, of Ingor, of Perm, of Viatka, of Bulgaria and of other countries ; Master and Grand Duke of the lower countries in Novgorod, of Tchernigoff, of...
Pàgina 455 - ... to contemplate the introduction of a system of conscription.2 'Take', he said, 'the example of Prussia, for I know no other so striking, of the necessity of constant vigilance in the strict maintenance of a State.' And he invited his countrymen to study and admire the Russian system of government. 'It is practically unaffected by the life of man or the lapse of time — it moves on, as it were, by its own impetus: it is silent, concentrated, perpetual, and unbroken: it is, therefore, successful.'3...

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