Peter the Great

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D. Appleton, 1897 - 592 halaman
 

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Halaman 321 - Mazeppa, when he heard this report, "raged like a whirlwind," hurried to Batourin to give the alarm, and then crossed the Desna and joined the Swedish army. It was too late. The popular sentiment, on which both he and Charles had reckoned to promote an insurrectionary movement, confused by the tergiversations and the ambiguous actions of the hetman, had quite gone astray and lost all consistency. All Mazeppa could reckon upon was a body of...
Halaman 272 - The front of her stays was adorned with jewels, singularly placed ; they represented a double eagle, badly set, the wings of which were of small stones. She wore a dozen orders, and as many portraits of saints and relics, fastened to the facing of her gown, so that when she walked, the jumbling of all these orders and portraits one against the other made a tinkling noise like a mule in harness. The czar, on the contrary, was very tall and pretty well made; his face was handsome, but his countenance...

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