 | Portfolio - 1837 - 262 pages
...is manifest by the oppression, the desolation, and the complaints of the conquered populations — complaints which even resound as far as Persia. The...Caspian Sea, the mosques are converted into magazines or wine-cellars, and the houses appertaining to those mosques are converted into stables; whilst the English... | |
 | English periodicals - 1837 - 674 pages
...Russian power " promises indeed protection for the laws of the prophet, and " possibly such may be the sovereign will of the monarch who " occupies the throne ; but at a distance the unworthiness of " subalterns renders it inefficient, and in all Georgia, and " along the Caspian, the... | |
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... head of his armies or to administer the country, are bound by the same law. Justice reigns under the shade of his rule, and with justice, wisdom, mildness, and a desire for the welfare of those who confide in him . Now this difference, which is as... 