 | English literature - 1878 - 620 pages
...is building a town at Czarco-Zelo, to be called Constintingrod.' In another despatch he says:— ' The present reigning idea (and it carries away all...Constantinople. The Empress discoursed a long while the other day on the ancient Greeks; of their alacrity and the superiority of their genius, and the... | |
 | 1878 - 646 pages
...building a town at Czarco-Zelo, to be called Constanthigrod. ' In another despatch he says : — ; The present reigning idea (and it carries away all...Constantinople. The Empress discoursed a long while the other day on the ancient Greeks ; of their alacrity and the superiority of their genius, and the... | |
 | English literature - 1878 - 630 pages
...is building a town at Czarco-Zelo, to be called Constantingrod.' In another despatch he says : — ' The present reigning idea (and it carries away all...Constantinople. The Empress discoursed a long while the other day on the ancient Greeks ; of their alacrity and the superiority of their genius, and the... | |
 | English literature - 1878 - 618 pages
...is building a town at Czarco-Zelo, to be called Constantingrod.' In another despatch he says : — ' The present reigning idea (and it carries away all...Constantinople. The Empress discoursed a long while the other day ou the ancieut Greeks ; of their alacrity and the superiority of their genius, and the... | |
 | North American review - 1880 - 672 pages
...corruption, too headstrong to be persuaded, and too ignorant to listen to plain truth and conviction. . . . The present reigning idea — and it carries away...superiority of their genius, and the same character heing still extant in the modern ones, and of the possibility of their again becoming the first people... | |
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Empress discoursed a long while the other day on the ancient Greeks ; of their alacrity and the superiority of their genius, and the same character being still extant in the modern ones ; and of the possibility of their again becoming the first people,... 