 What is it you look for? Are you not aware that if the heavens should fall, Russia, could prop them with her bayonets ? The English may be good mechanics and artizans, but power dwells only with Russia. No country ever waged successful war against her....  A Year Among the Circassians - Página 162por John Augustus Longworth - 1840Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1849 - 792 páginas
...deeds. In his bombastic and blasphemous proclamation of the 28th May 1837, he informed the Circassians that "If the heavens should fall, Russia could prop them with her bayonets ; " following up this startling assertion with the declaration that " there are but two powers in existence... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1838 - 862 páginas
...a letter addressed in the course of this campaign, by William ineff, to the Circassian chiefs: — "What is it you look for ? Are you not aware that...her bayonets ? The English may be good mechanics and artizans, but power dwells only with Russia. No country ever waged successful war against her. Russia... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1838 - 1122 páginas
...from a letter addressed in the course of this campaign, by Williamineff, to the Circassian chiefs: — "What is it you look for ? Are you not aware that...her bayonets ? The English may be good mechanics and artizans, but power dwells only with Russia. No country ever waged successful war against her. Russia... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1840 - 614 páginas
...impolitic, that, notwithstanding all Mr. Longworth's assurances, we can scarcely believe it to be authentic. "What is it you look for ? Are you not aware that...should fall, Russia could prop them with her bayonets ? . . . . If you desire peace, you must be convinced that there are but two powers in existence—... | |
 | 1849 - 864 páginas
...deeds. In his bombastic and blasphemous proclamation of the 28th May 1837, he informed the Circassians that "If the heavens should fall, Russia could prop them with her bayonets ; " following up this startling assertion with the declaration that " there are but two powers in existence... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - 1863 - 440 páginas
...free offering, he cannot sell, because he has not bought it." The Russian answer runs thus : — " What is it you look for ? Are you not aware that if...her bayonets? The English may be good mechanics and artizans, but power dwells only with Russia. No country ever waged successful war against her. Russia... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - 1863 - 450 páginas
...sell, because he has not bought it." The Russian answer runs thus : — " What is it you look for 1 Are you not aware that if the Heavens should fall...her bayonets ? The English may be good mechanics and artizans, but power dwells only with Russia. No country ever waged snccessful war against her. Russia... | |
 | John McGilchrist - 1865 - 204 páginas
...generals to the Circassian warriors, against whom she was exasperated by her utter want of success. " Are you not aware that if the heavens should fall, Russia could prop them up with her bayonets? The English may be good mechanics and artisans, but power dwells only with Russia.... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1866 - 690 páginas
...chiefs.1 Copies were taken, and the letter was read with a painful kind of amusement throughout Europe ; " Are you not aware, that, if the heavens should fall,...No country ever waged successful war against her. Russia is the most powerful of all nations. If you desire peace, you must be convinced that there are... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1971 - 528 páginas
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