The Secret Dispatch or, The Adventures of Captain Balgonie

The Secret Dispatch or, The Adventures of Captain Balgonie

The Secret Dispatch; or, The Adventures of Captain Balgonie I need scarcely inform the reader of history,...
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Author: Grant, James,1822-1887
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The Secret Dispatch or, The Adventures of Captain Balgonie

The Secret Dispatch or, The Adventures of Captain Balgonie

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The Secret Dispatch or, The Adventures of Captain Balgonie

$19.99 $9.99
Author: Grant, James,1822-1887
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Secret Dispatch; or, The Adventures of Captain Balgonie

I need scarcely inform the reader of history, that most of the events narrated in the subsequent pages actually occurred in the manner stated; and I have done much to soften, or subdue, the actual barbarity of the story, though such barbarity was consonant enough to the days of her, whose "lust of power and contempt of all moral restraint" won her the name of "the Semiramis of the North." For the betrothal of the young Lieutenant of the Valikolutz Infantry to his cousin, it may be mentioned that a dispensation was necessary, as the Russian Churchlike the Catholicforbids all marriages within four degrees of relationship. As stated in the text, the little song of the gipsy is one of many current enough in Russia, where the destruction of the Crescent is always fondly predicted; but never so confidently as during our late Crimean War: and even at this very time, an aged Muscovite, named Alexis Alexandrovitch, after a seclusion of many years in the district of Samara, has come forth as a prophet on the same subject, and is now proceeding from place to place, like another Peter the Hermit, foretelling and preaching the downfall of "the sick man" at Stamboul, and the speedy substitution of the Russian Cross for the Turkish Crescent on the dome of St. Sophia. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 64788
Author: Grant, James
Release Date: Mar 11, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English

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