 | 1836 - 578 pagine
...wilds of Siberia ; and her empire in Europe has been nearly doubled in little more than half a century. In sixtyfour years she has advanced her frontier eight...and the same distance towards the capital of Persia. The regiment that is now stationed at her furthest frontier post on the western shore of the Caspian,... | |
 | Sir John McNeill - 1836 - 166 pagine
...wilds of Siberia; and her empire in Europe has been nearly doubled in little more than half a century. In sixtyfour years she has advanced her frontier eight...and the same distance towards the capital of Persia. The regiment that is now stationed at her furthest frontier post on the western shore of the Caspian,... | |
 | Sir John McNeill - 1836 - 180 pagine
...fifty miles nearer to Constantinople ; she has possessed herself of the capital of Poland, and 143 has advanced to within a few miles of the capital...and the same distance towards the capital of Persia. The regiment that is now stationed at her furthest frontier post on the western shore of the Caspian,... | |
 | Sir John McNeill - 1836 - 174 pagine
...fifty miles nearer to Constantinople ; she has possessed herself of the capital of Poland, and 143 has advanced to within a few miles of the capital...and the same distance towards the capital of Persia. The regiment that is now stationed at her furthest frontier post on the western shore of the Caspian,... | |
 | 1838 - 894 pagine
...throne, her frontier was distant three hundred miles. Since then she has stretched herself forwards about one thousand miles towards India, and the same distance towards the capital of Persia. The regiment that is stationed at her furthest frontier post on the western shore of the Caspian has... | |
 | 1854 - 694 pagine
...Holland, taken together ; the country she has conquered from Persia is about the size of England ; and her acquisitions in Tartary have an area equal to...same distance towards the capital of Persia. Such has been tho apparently irresistible inarch of this gigantic power. If we inquire into the causes of... | |
 | Edward Thornton - 1845 - 578 pagine
...miles nearer to Constantinople ; she has possessed herself of the capital of Poland, and has CHAP. advanced to within a few miles of the capital of Sweden,...and the same distance towards the capital of Persia. The regiment that is now stationed at her farthest frontier post, on the western shore of the Caspian,... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 838 pagine
...throne, her frontier was distant 300 miles. Since that time she has stretehed herself forward about 1000 miles towards India, and the same distance towards the capital of Persia. The regiment that is now stationed at her furthest frontier post, on the western shore of the Caspian,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1849 - 688 pagine
...her frontier 800 miles towards Vienna, Berlin, Dresden, Munich, and Paris ; she has approached 450 miles nearer to Constantinople ; she has possessed...towards India, and the same distance towards the capital uf Persia." have hardly elapsed since she was first recognised as a member of the European states-system.... | |
 | Sir John McNeill - 1854 - 198 pagine
...wilds of Siberia ; and her empire in Europe has been nearly doubled in little more than half a century. In sixtyfour years she has advanced her frontier eight...and the same distance towards the capital of Persia. The regiment that is now stationed at her furthest frontier post on the western shore of the Caspian... | |
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In sixtyfour years she has advanced her frontier eight hundred and fifty miles towards Vienna, Berlin, Dresden, Munich, and Paris ; she has approached four hundred and fifty miles nearer to Constantinople ; she has possessed herself of the capital of... 
