The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1844 |
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Pàgina 216
... moujik . There are , at a rough statement , upwards of twenty millions of private serfs , and nearly the same number belonging to the imperial domain ; and they are already so blindly obedient to the tsar , so blindly confident of his ...
... moujik . There are , at a rough statement , upwards of twenty millions of private serfs , and nearly the same number belonging to the imperial domain ; and they are already so blindly obedient to the tsar , so blindly confident of his ...
Pàgina 217
... moujiks , the most important element , if the most inert , of the colossus of Russian strength . Physically the moujik has retained more of the pure Sclavonic than in his manners , customs , and feelings ; but even physically he bears ...
... moujiks , the most important element , if the most inert , of the colossus of Russian strength . Physically the moujik has retained more of the pure Sclavonic than in his manners , customs , and feelings ; but even physically he bears ...
Pàgina 218
... moujik inhabits a log - house , which he builds with his own axe , with which he is marvellously dexterous ; the interstices he stuffs with moss , and cuts down and planes , to surprising smoothness , with the same instrument . The axe ...
... moujik inhabits a log - house , which he builds with his own axe , with which he is marvellously dexterous ; the interstices he stuffs with moss , and cuts down and planes , to surprising smoothness , with the same instrument . The axe ...
Pàgina 219
... moujik leaves his dwelling , his blood raised by the heat of his artificial atmosphere to a high tempe- rature , and the thick sheepskin , an excellent non - conductor , retains the heat for several hours ; when it is escaping , the ...
... moujik leaves his dwelling , his blood raised by the heat of his artificial atmosphere to a high tempe- rature , and the thick sheepskin , an excellent non - conductor , retains the heat for several hours ; when it is escaping , the ...
Pàgina 220
... moujik is far from being , in any other sense , strong or enduring ; the very nature of his food precludes the possibility of this . He grows wheat and rears cattle , of which the rapacity of his master , during four centuries , has ...
... moujik is far from being , in any other sense , strong or enduring ; the very nature of his food precludes the possibility of this . He grows wheat and rears cattle , of which the rapacity of his master , during four centuries , has ...
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