Voyages and Travels Through the Russian Empire, Tartary, and Part of the Kingdom of Persia, Nide 1author, 1770 |
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Sivu 56 - Swedish lady,1 who lost it for having murdered her child, unlawfully begotten ; and this is the only murder of that kind I ever heard of in Russia. This lady was maid of honour to the Empress Catherine. It is said Peter went and saw her executed. He wept much, but could not prevail with himself to pardon her, for fear, as is said, that God would charge him with the innocent blood she had shed. He caused her head to be cupped, and injected.
Sivu 49 - In ihort, after the laft iervice is Over, every one reforts to his home, and eats and drinks as much as he is able : for eight days the jubilee is...
Sivu 49 - ... liquor, which never fails to bring many to their beds, and not a few to their graves.
Sivu 92 - One day Mr Farcharson Professor of Astronomy came from the Academy to drink tea with me, but, although all the younger officers had studied under him, and particularly the gentlemen at that time on guard, whom he well knew, he could not gain admittance till the commander gave orders. Indeed the Captain ran to the gate, and conducted his old regent with great deference to my house. When seated, the good old professor told him, that he was glad to have lived so long as to see many gentlemen in the...
Sivu 297 - ... inhabitants of the adjoining iflands fettled in it, and built a town to which they gave the name of the ifland *. The poets feigned, that the centaurs killed by Hercules were buried here, whence took rife the proverb, To place all...
Sivu xi - I have the honour to be, May it pleafe your Grace, Your Grace's moft humble, moft obliged, and moft devoted Servant, -. ;-X.;t i .0 F SUBSCIBERS NAMES.