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The Portfolio; or A collection of state papers, etc. etc. illustrative of ... - Page 188
by Portfolio - 1836
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The Portfolio, Volume 1

David Urquhart - Great Britain - 1836 - 562 pages
...benevolent, who instruct- the ignorant, who protect the weak, who are not friends to the Russians, but rather their enemies, and who are not enemies of the...humiliation that we have learnt that our country is marked, on all the maps printed in Europe, as a portion of Russia ; that Treaties, of which we know nothing,...
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The Portfolio; Or, a Collection of State Papers, Etc: Illustrative ..., Volume 1

David Urquhart - Europe - 1836 - 552 pages
...benevolent, who instruct the ignorant, who protect the weak, who are not friends to the Russians, but rather their enemies, and who are not enemies of the...humiliation that we have learnt that our country is marked, on all the maps printed in Europe, as a portion of Russia ; that Treaties, of which we know nothing,...
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The Portfolio, Or, a Collection of State Papers: Illustrative of ..., Volume 1

Political science - 1836 - 544 pages
...benevolent, who instruct the ignorant, who protect the weak, who are not friends to the Russians, but rather their enemies, and who are not enemies of the...humiliation that we have learnt that our country is marked, on all the maps printed in Europe, as a portion of Russia ; that Treaties, of which we know nothing,...
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The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India ...

Asia - 1836 - 624 pages
...We thought that England and France would take no interest in a simple and poor people like us ; out we did not doubt that such wise nations knew that...let alone, but that we hate the Russians with good rause, and almost always profoundi'st liiiiiiiliation tliat we have learned that our country is inurked...
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Travels in Circassia, Krim Tartary, &c, Volume 1

Edmund Spencer (capt.) - 1837 - 432 pages
...benevolent, who instruct the ignorant, who protect the weak, who are not friends to the Russians, but rather their enemies, and who are not enemies of the...humiliation that we have learnt that our country is marked, on all the maps printed in Europe, as a portion of Russia ; that treaties, of which we know nothing,...
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Three Voyages in the Black Sea to the Coast of Circassia: Including ...

Edouard Taitbout de Marigny (chevalier.) - Caucasus, Northern (Russia) - 1837 - 336 pages
...benevolent, who instruct the ignorant, who protect the weak, who are not friends to the Russians, but rather their enemies, and who are not enemies of the...humiliation that we have learnt that our country is marked, on all the maps printed in Europe, as a portion of Russia; that treaties, of which we know nothing,...
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Three Voyages in the Black Sea to the Coast of Circassia

E. Taitbout de Marigny - Azerbaijan S.S.R. - 1837 - 350 pages
...nations knew that we were not Russians, and though we know little, and have no artillery, geperals, discipline, ships, or riches — that we are an honest...humiliation that we have learnt that our country is marked, on all the maps printed in Europe, as a portion of Russia ; that treaties, of which we know nothing,...
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History of Russia from the Foundation of the Empire by Rourick to ..., Volume 1

Alphonse Rabbe, Jonathan Duncan - Russia - 1854 - 656 pages
...generals, discipline, ships, or riches, we are an honest people, and peaceable when let alone ; but we hate the Russians with good cause, and almost always...them. It is therefore with the profoundest humiliation we have learned that our country is marked on all the maps printed in Europe as a portion of Russia...
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Russia: The Once and Future Empire From Pre-History to Putin

Philip Longworth - History - 2006 - 886 pages
...the odds. These Circassians represented themselves as fundamentally honest and peaceable . . . but we hate the Russians with good cause, and almost always beat them [despite the fact that] we have no artillery, generals, ships or riches. Russia tells the West that...
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