The National Review, Volume 54W.H. Allen, 1910 |
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GEORGE BORROW IN RUSSIA ONE January morning in the year 1833 , a tall , athletic figure might have been seen striding swiftly along the high - road from Norwich to London : A lad who twenty tongues can talk , And sixty miles a day can ...
GEORGE BORROW IN RUSSIA ONE January morning in the year 1833 , a tall , athletic figure might have been seen striding swiftly along the high - road from Norwich to London : A lad who twenty tongues can talk , And sixty miles a day can ...
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... " the finest city in the world " ; other European capitals were unworthy of comparison . He was loud in his praise of the " hundreds of enormous palaces , " the long streets " straight as an arrow . . GEORGE BORROW IN RUSSIA 75.
... " the finest city in the world " ; other European capitals were unworthy of comparison . He was loud in his praise of the " hundreds of enormous palaces , " the long streets " straight as an arrow . . GEORGE BORROW IN RUSSIA 75.
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... proceed arrived from London , together with a handsome remittance to meet immediate require- ments . The hour of real and serious work had arrived . In contracting for paper , Borrow showed that he was GEORGE BORROW IN RUSSIA 77.
... proceed arrived from London , together with a handsome remittance to meet immediate require- ments . The hour of real and serious work had arrived . In contracting for paper , Borrow showed that he was GEORGE BORROW IN RUSSIA 77.
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... consign- ment of paper arrived , and without examination Beneze handed it to the printers for use . But the quality was inferior , as the Director himself discerned next day . The presses were stopped GEORGE BORROW IN RUSSIA 79.
... consign- ment of paper arrived , and without examination Beneze handed it to the printers for use . But the quality was inferior , as the Director himself discerned next day . The presses were stopped GEORGE BORROW IN RUSSIA 79.
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... George Borrow , who has had to superintend the work [ the production of the Manchu New Testament ] has in every way afforded satisfaction to the Committee . They have reason to believe that his acquirements in the language are of the ...
... George Borrow , who has had to superintend the work [ the production of the Manchu New Testament ] has in every way afforded satisfaction to the Committee . They have reason to believe that his acquirements in the language are of the ...
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