 | Jonathan Swift, William Cooke Taylor - Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character) - 1884 - 490 pages
...Promises to entertain his company with a relation of such facts as are well deserving their notice. I SET off from Rome on a journey to Russia, in the midst...winter, from a just notion that frost and snow must o£ course mend the roads, which every traveller had described as uncommonly bad through the northern... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy - Readers - 1890 - 410 pages
...laurels. ADVENTURE OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN WITH HIS HORSE. RUDOLPH ERICH RASPE. EXTRACTS. I SET off for Rome on a journey to Russia in the midst of winter,...uncommonly bad through the northern parts of Germany and Poland. I went on horseback, as the most convenient manner of travelling ; I was but lightly clothed,... | |
 | W. C. TAYLOR - 1890 - 890 pages
...Promises to entertain his company with a relation <pf such facts as are well deserving their notice. I SET off from Rome on a journey to Russia, in the midst...winter, from a just notion that frost and snow must of icourse mend the roads, which every traveller had described .as uncommonly bad through the northern... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1894 - 462 pages
...PROMISES TO ENTERTAIN HIS COMPANY WITH A RELATION OF SUCH FACTS AS AKE WELL DESERVING TUEIK NOTICE. I SET off from Rome on a journey to Russia, in the midst...mend the roads, which every traveller had described us uncommonly bud through the northern parta of Germany, Poland, Courland and Livonia. I went on horseback,... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 560 pages
...facts may fall under suspicion, by being found in company with his confounded inventions. IN RUSSIA. I set off from Rome on a journey to Russia, in the midst...and snow must of course mend the roads, which every traveler had described as uncommonly bad through the northern parts of Germany, Poland, Courland, and... | |
 | Joel Chandler Harris - Children's poetry - 1902 - 442 pages
...published in English in 1785. Many of the marvellous stories were based on medieval German jokes. SET off on a journey to Russia, in the midst of winter, from...Poland, Courland, and Livonia. I went on horseback, as it is the most convenient manner of travelling, provided, however, that rider and horse are in good... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - Wit and humor - 1906 - 318 pages
...with his confounded inventions. — "Adventures of Baron Miinchausen." A Horse Tied to a Steeple I SET off from Rome on a journey to Russia, in the midst...from a just notion that frost and snow must of course improve the roads, which every traveler had described as uncommonly bad through the northern parts... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - Wit and humor - 1906 - 326 pages
...winter, from a just notion that frost and snow must of course improve the roads, which every traveler had described as uncommonly bad through the northern...went on horseback, as the most convenient manner of traveling. I was but lightly clothed, and of this I felt the inconvenience the more I advanced northeast.... | |
 | Eva March Tappan - Children's poetry - 1907 - 494 pages
...found in company with his inventions. THE BARON'S JOURNEY TO ST. PETERSBURG By Rodolph Eric Raspe I SET off from Rome on a journey to Russia, in the midst...and snow must of course mend the roads, which every traveler had described as uncommonly bad through the northern parts of Germany, Poland, Courland, and... | |
 | Charles Welsh - Children's literature - 1909 - 492 pages
...congratulated her. TALES FROM THE TRAVELS OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN THE TALE OF THE SNOW AND THE STEEPLE I SET off from Rome on a journey to Russia, in the midst...and snow must of course mend the roads, which every traveler had described as uncommonly bad through the northern parts of Germany, Poland, Courland, and... | |
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SET off from Rome on a journey to Russia, in the midst of winter, from a just notion that frost and snow must of course mend the roads, which every traveller had described as uncommonly bad through the northern parts of Germany, Poland, Courland, and... 
