The Invasion of the Crimea, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Guarantee. august master good faith, his Majesty swell known magnanimity -the Pruth, 5the Danube the Balkan; Bulgaria, high-road to Constantinople, the air once more is so charged i with the language of Czarinas and Czars, and the ;names of their neighbours landmarks, that judging junly from the unstudied sounds one might fancy the strange fitful drama which 1long ago traced in :these pages to be now again acting before us. i And indeed, though along with sharp contrasl :there is many a point of real likeness between the story of 1853 and the one we now see going on. :A mongst the foremost of the causes which help to bring about this recurrence, there must be reckoned that crusading spirit of the north which, though stir ring the heart of the millions much more deeply than the mind of their rulers, is nevertheless very stcadfa t.
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