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Page 98
... walls , and who made the utmost resistance for fear of punishment , were scourged and crucified near the city . ramine made them so daring in these excursions , that five hundred , and sometimes more , suffered this dreadful death every ...
... walls , and who made the utmost resistance for fear of punishment , were scourged and crucified near the city . ramine made them so daring in these excursions , that five hundred , and sometimes more , suffered this dreadful death every ...
Page 359
... walls , new suburbs would be raised , which would increase in extent to the former , and ul- mately require a similar fortification , and so on . This ap- pears to have been the cause of the present outline of Mos- cow , ( the Kremlin ...
... walls , new suburbs would be raised , which would increase in extent to the former , and ul- mately require a similar fortification , and so on . This ap- pears to have been the cause of the present outline of Mos- cow , ( the Kremlin ...
Page 362
... walls , ruinous and deserted , that now invite the stranger's curiosity . When all hopes were banished from the ambi- tious and discontented mind of the French ruler , and when he found that he could no longer maintain his usurpation of ...
... walls , ruinous and deserted , that now invite the stranger's curiosity . When all hopes were banished from the ambi- tious and discontented mind of the French ruler , and when he found that he could no longer maintain his usurpation of ...
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