 Moscow!' and you behold nothing but a wide and scattered suburb, huts, gardens, pig-sties, brick walls, churches, dunghills, palaces, timber-yards, warehouses, and a refuse, as it were, of materials sufficient to stock an empire with miserable towns and...  Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa: Russia, Tartary ... - Page 60by Edward Daniel Clarke - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - 1820 - 540 pages
...are; and are ready to ask, once more, How far is it to Moscow? They will tell you> " This is Moscow!" and you behold nothing but a wide and scattered suburb,...dunghills, palaces, timber-yards, warehouses, and a refuge, as it were, of materials sufficient to stock an empire with miserable towns and miserable villages.... | |
 | 1810 - 538 pages
...to ask, once more, Hnw far is it to Moscow ? They will tell you, " This is Moscow"! " and you hchold nothing but a wide and scattered suburb, huts, gardens,...pigsties, brick walls, churches, dunghills, palaces, timber yards, warehouses, and a refuse, as it were, of materials sufficient to stock an empire with... | |
 | 1811 - 1054 pages
...are; and are ready to ask, once more, How far is it to Moscow? They will tell you, "This is Moscow I ' and you behold nothing but a wide and scattered suburb, huts, gardens, pig-sties, brick wallt, churches, dunghill«, palaces, timber-yards, warehouses, and a refuse, as it were, or materials... | |
 | 1811 - 566 pages
...and are ready to ask, once more, How far is it to Moscow ? They will tell jou, " This is Moscow !" and you behold nothing but a wide and scattered suburb, huts, gardens, pig-sties, brick-walls, churches, dunghills palaces, timber-yards, warehouses, and a refuse, as it were, of materials... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1812 - 572 pages
...Moscow ? They will tell you, " This is Moscow !" and you behold nothing but a wide and scat, tered suburb, huts, gardens, pig-sties, brick walls, churches,...dunghills, palaces, timber-yards, warehouses, and a refuse, at it were, of materials sufficient to stock an empire with miserable towns and miserable villages.... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 788 pages
...They will tell you, "This is Moscow!" and you behold nothing but a wide and scattered suburb, hutst gardens, pigsties, brick walls, churches, dunghills,...timber-yards, warehouses, and a refuse as it were ef materials sufficient to stock an empire with miserable towns and miserable villages. One might imagine... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1815 - 602 pages
...!" and you behold nothing but a wide and scattered suburb ; huts, garden.«, pig-sties, brick-walls, churches, dunghills, palaces, timber-yards, warehouses, and a refuse, as it were, of materials suSicieut to scock an empire with miserable towns ала miserable villages. One might imagine all... | |
 | R. P. Forster - 1818 - 592 pages
...and are ready to ask, once more, How far is it to Moscow ; they will tell you, '• This is Moscow T and you behold nothing but a wide and scattered suburb,...timber-yards, warehouses, and a refuse, as it were, of muteri;il$ sufficient to stock an empire with miserable towns and miserable villages. One might imagine... | |
 | 1820 - 572 pages
...gardens, pig-sties, brick walls, churches, dunghills, palaces, timber-yards, warehouses, and a refuge, as it were, of materials sufficient to stock an empire...miserable towns and miserable villages. One might imagme all the states of Europe and Asia had sent a building, by way of representative, to Moscow:... | |
 | William Bingley - 1822 - 384 pages
...is ready to ask, " How far is it to Moscow?" The people will say: "This is Moscow!" and he beholds nothing but a wide and scattered suburb, huts, gardens,...towns and miserable villages. " One might imagine (observes Dr. Clarke) that each of the states of Europe and Asia had sent, to Moscow, a building by... | |
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