Travels Into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark: Interspersed with Historical Relations and Political Inquiries, Volume 2

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Page 434 - was able to do : me infpired him with that " humanity, which, in the opinion of his " fubjects, nature feemed to have denied him. " A word from her mouth in favour of a *
Page 92 - Each foundling has a napkin, pewter-plate, a knife, .fork, and fpoon : the napkin and table-cloth are clean three times in the week. They rife at fix, dine at eleven, and fup at fix. The little children have bread at feven, and at four. When they are not employed in their neceflary occupations, the utmoft freedom is allowed, and they are encouraged to be as much in the air as poffible. The whole was a lovely fight ; and the countenances of the children exprefled the utmoft content and happinefs.
Page 245 - The prefent town is furrounded by a rampart of earth, with a range of old towers at regular diftances, forming a circumference of fcarcely a mile and an half; and even this inconfiderable circle includes much open fpace, and many houfes which are not inhabited.
Page 413 - From thence he occafionally fent one of his confidential pages with a complimentary meflage to the emprefs, as if he had been in the country, and with fecret orders to obferve her motions. From the page's information, the emperor, on the third night, furprifed...
Page 268 - Quay, which ftretches for three miles, except where it is interrupted by the Admiralty ; and the Neva, during the whole of that fpace, has been lately embanked, at the expence of the emprefs, by a wall, parapet, and pavement of hewn granite ; a moft elegant and durable monument of imperial munificence.
Page 39 - Nikita, which afterwards, when he became monk, he changed to Nicon ; the appellation by which he is more generally known. He was educated in the convent of St. Macarius, under the care of a monk. From the courfe of his ftudies, which were almoft folely directed to the Holy Scriptures, and the exhortations of his preceptor, he imbibed at a very early period, the...
Page 449 - In the mean time, the marshal himself came in, much in the same condition with the druggist, saying he ought to have been more expeditious, as the prince was very ill of an apoplectic fit ; upon this the...
Page 450 - It was given out publicly, that on hearing his sentence of death pronounced, the dread thereof threw him into an apoplectic fit, of which he died. Very few believed he died a natural death ; but it was dangerous for people to speak as they thought.
Page 359 - Within i he fortrefs is a four-oared boat, fecured with great veneration, in a brick building, and preferved as a memorial to future ages, of its being the origin of the Ruflian fleet.
Page 266 - The ftreets in general are broad .f and fpacious ; and three of the principal ones, which meet in a point at the Admiralty, and reach to the extremities of the fuburbs, are at leaft two miles in length.

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