The Chronicle of Novgorod, 1016-1471

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Offices of the Society, 1914 - 237 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 209 - This cunning monk Pimin sought his appointment by the apostate Grigori, spreading it among the people that he should be sent to Kiev where he would receive his confirmation, being unmindful of the words in the Holy Gospels spoken by the lips of our Lord: " He that entereth not by the door into the sheep-fold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
Pàgina 64 - /The same year, for our sins, unknown tribes* came, whom no one exactly knows, who they are, nor whence they came out, nor what their language is, nor of what race they are, nor what their faith is ; but they call them Tartars,
Pàgina 92 - will confess him before my Father which is in Heaven, and whosoever shall deny me before men I also will deny him before my Father who is in Heaven
Pàgina 50 - from the merchants, for enforcing the collection of taxes at fixed times and everything bad. And they went to plunder their courts, and set fire to Miroshkin's court and Dmitri's, appropriating their effects, sold all their villages and servants, sought out their treasures, and took of them without number, and the rest they divided so that each got some,
Pàgina 66 - Day. And the Tartars turned back from the river Dnieper, and we know not whence they came, nor where they hid themselves again; God knows whence he fetched them against us for our sins.
Pàgina ix - sun of the Russian land has set, my children." " Grant, Merciful Lord," exclaims the Chronicler, " that he may see Thy Face in the age to come, for he has laboured for Novgorod, and for the whole Russian land.
Pàgina xv - lay north and north-east of the primitive Russians, as far as the Polar Ocean and Tobolsk province, was the work of Novgorod. Probably about the time of the First Crusade (1096), and certainly before the Second (1147), the Republic had already come into touch with the country just beyond the Ural Mountains. Long ere this, perhaps as early as the age of Cnut
Pàgina 50 - at three grivnas throughout the whole town, and took everything. God alone knows how much any took secretly, and many grew rich from this; and what was on the boards* that they left to the
Pàgina 50 - the men of Novgorod held a Veche over Posadnik Dmitri and his brethren, because they had ordered the levying of silver on the people of Novgorod, for collecting money
Pàgina 92 - shall deny me before men I also will deny him before my Father who is in Heaven

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