Domestic Scenes in Russia: In a Series of Letters Describing a Year's Residence in that Country, Chiefly in the InteriorJ. Murray, 1839 - 348 sider |
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Side xi
... Servants — Russian opinions of justice - Anecdote . - THE GREEK CHURCH - Its doctrines and practices - The clergy - The fasts - Tendency of the system - Religious tolerance - Children must always be Greeks if either parent is of that ...
... Servants — Russian opinions of justice - Anecdote . - THE GREEK CHURCH - Its doctrines and practices - The clergy - The fasts - Tendency of the system - Religious tolerance - Children must always be Greeks if either parent is of that ...
Side 31
... servants , and is , I believe , very common in Russia ; this , however , being the first specimen of such a vehicle which I ever saw , struck me as singular from its novelty : the best description which I can think of for it , is the ...
... servants , and is , I believe , very common in Russia ; this , however , being the first specimen of such a vehicle which I ever saw , struck me as singular from its novelty : the best description which I can think of for it , is the ...
Side 40
... servants constantly in the ante - rooms close at hand , and within hearing of the conversation . The important precept so carefully instilled into English children , always to shut the door after them , is un- known in Russia . The ...
... servants constantly in the ante - rooms close at hand , and within hearing of the conversation . The important precept so carefully instilled into English children , always to shut the door after them , is un- known in Russia . The ...
Side 41
... servants , and sixteen carriage - horses . A single man seldom moves with less than two servants and four horses , and the Russian country - house has no neighbour- ing inn to which the latter may be inhospitably consigned LETTER IV . 41.
... servants , and sixteen carriage - horses . A single man seldom moves with less than two servants and four horses , and the Russian country - house has no neighbour- ing inn to which the latter may be inhospitably consigned LETTER IV . 41.
Side 121
... servant well accustomed to travelling , whom we shall doubtless find highly useful upon the road . On a long Russian journey two servants are very desirable , one to relieve the other ; or on arriving at a station , one to busy himself ...
... servant well accustomed to travelling , whom we shall doubtless find highly useful upon the road . On a long Russian journey two servants are very desirable , one to relieve the other ; or on arriving at a station , one to busy himself ...
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