| 1841 - 404 pages
...their toil, before the warlike proprietors of the adjacent castles could descend to their defense. Prompt in aggression, prompter still in flight, they...population, like the soil, never ceased to be Sclavonian." The Cossacks were wanderers, and their errant mode of life commenced with the destruction of the grods... | |
| Methodist Episcopal Church - 1841 - 346 pages
...their toil, before the warlike proprietors of the adjacent castles could descend to their defense. Prompt in aggression, prompter still in flight, they...population, like the soil, never ceased to be Sclavonian." The Cossacks were wanderers, and their errant mode of life commenced with the destruction of the grods... | |
| 1841 - 566 pages
...leaving behind them only heaps of ashes and the corpses of the aged. Notwithstanding this imnoense havoc, the population still renewed itself upon that...population, like the soil, never ceased to be Sclavonian/ In the breasts of men thus circumstanced the desire naturally arises rather to go forth and meet sword... | |
| English literature - 1841 - 508 pages
...leaving behind them only heaps of ashes and the corpses of the aged. Notwithstanding this immense havoe, the population still renewed itself upon that beautiful...human blood, and white with bones, where sorrow grew abundantly,'—and that population, like the soil, never ceased to be Sclavonian." In the breasts of... | |
| sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1841 - 1006 pages
...ceaseless havoc, the population still sprang up afresh upon that beautiful soil ; cut up, as it was, says a Sclavonian poet, " by the tramp of horses,...white with bones — where sorrow grew abundantly (lj." 1' was am'dst the misery and from the effects of this constant Devastation, which continued for... | |
| Periodicals - 1851 - 608 pages
...Sclavouian poet say of the dark days of the infancy of those nations, that their soil was " cut up by the tramp of horses, fertilized by human blood,...white with bones, where sorrow grew abundantly." And still the current sets westward. The yearly migration across the Atlantic is as great as that of the... | |
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