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...til in the spring of 1275 the three reached Xanadu, where they were met by the imperial courtiers of Kubia Khan who conducted them to Cambaluc. Though... ... active service under the Emperor. In the year 1277, Marco was attached to the Imperial Council, and was soon afterward sent by Kubia Khan on a missio... ...h they yielded, and which none were permitted to drink except they were of the imperial lineage of Zingis-Khan, or of one family called Boriat, which ... .... Such was the doubtful distinction of a French pirate called, after the great Russian Czar, Peter the Great, who, originally a common sailor, acquire... ...enus was successfully made from two points, on separate islands, but while the astronomers were making their calculations one of the ship's store room... ...ohn Reinhold Foster and his son, naturalists, William Baily and William Wales, astronomers, and a historiographer. IN A REGION OF INTENSE COLD. The mo... ...itish commerce. Besides the crews there were scientists, naturalists, artists, astronomers, and the young man, Omai, whom Captain Furneaux had taken f... ...him to put into Oonalaska, where he spent some time with the natives, and some Russians who were there for their government, developing the seal fishe... ... of ice that disputed his further passage northward. In the harbor was a small Russian village and garrison, and to this place the remains were taken ...

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...to; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so on. And when you know the ... ...e all history: the Greeks, the Romans, the Persians, the Egyp tians, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the American... ...r it. Think of it—it was by command of that Italian loafer yon der on his imperial throne in the Geneva prison that this splendid multitude was assem... ...rld which could be relied on with certainty to accomplish it, I suppose—an imperial princess appeared in the balcony above them. They Mark T wain 141... ...racter with which we are not acquainted does not offend us—Greek, Hebrew, Russian, Arabic, and the others—they have an interesting look, and we see b... ...s, swindlers, explorers, adventurers by land and sea, bankers, financiers, astronomers, naturalists, claimants, impostors, chemists, biologists, geolo...

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...ursued by another; and how important it was to draw off detachments of the Imperial forces from Germany into Flanders, and how, by sending an army int... ... their very eyes in open daylight, and in a moment as it were. Such of the Imperial Generals as were out riding ran from all parts to the banks of the... ...the war, waited for and expected by all Europe, at last broke out, by some Imperialist troops firing upon a handful of men near Albaredo. One Spaniard... ...e learned, and often the admiration of the historian, of jurisconsults, of astronomers, and mathematicians, the most profound. He was especially learn... ...velled much, served in war, then been employed in different courts. He was Russian to the backbone, and his extreme avarice much damaged his talents. ... ...is father had attained the crown, although only of ordinary rank among the Russian nobility. These patriarchs were dependent upon those of the Greek r... ...ank and precedence. Thus Bissy and Villeroy found Dubois closeted with the Russian minis- ter. It was proposed to inform the Cardinal at once, of a th...

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..., that the re- cent improvements in science and mechanics have enabled the astronomers to make. Fortunately, he gave his discourses somewhat of the pr... ...nation of his hearers some just notions of its size, though so familiar to astronomers, produced a deep and unexpected impression on me. “Our instrume... ...ces that are ever paid for such articles—for to tell you the truth certain Russian princesses employ her in all these little matters. Have you thought... ...at the void of heaven. It was glittering with those bright stars which the astronomers tell us are suns of other systems, and the scene gradually drew... ...erchief “Why don’t Charley, then, take her himself? I’m sure, if I had HIS imperial, I could pick and choose among all the sec- ond-class heiresses in...

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...at somehow whaling is not respectable. Whaling not respectable? Whaling is imperial! By old English statutory law, the whale is declared “a royal fish.... ... seemed a white flag come to beg truce of a fortress. Curious to tell, this imperial negro, Ahasuerus Daggoo, was the Squire of little Flask, who looke... ...itary navy; nay, extorting almost as much outward homage as if he wore the imperial purple, and not the shabbiest of pilot cloth. And though of all me... ...edifices; whereby, with prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount to the apex, and sing out for new stars; eve... ...e writer hereof. Langsdorff, you must know by the way, was attached to the Russian Admiral Krusenstern’s famous Discovery Expedition in the beginning ... ...ubstantiates every word. The ship, however, was by no means a large one: a Russian craft built on the Siberian coast, and purchased by my uncle after ... ...e in the floating body of a dead whale — even as the French soldiers in the Russian campaign turned their dead horses into tents, and crawled into them...

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...at somehow whaling is not respectable. Whaling not respectable? Whaling is imperial! By old En- glish statutory law, the whale is declared “a royal fi... ...seemed a white flag come to beg truce of a fortress. Curious to tell, this imperial negro, Ahasuerus Daggoo, was the Squire of little Flask, who looke... ...itary navy; nay, extorting almost as much outward homage as if he wore the imperial purple, and not the shabbiest of pilot-cloth. And though of all me... ...difices; whereby, with prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount to the apex, and sing out for new stars; eve... ...e writer hereof. Langsdorff, you must know by the way, was attached to the Russian Admiral Krusenstern’s famous Discovery Expedition in the beginning ... ...ubstantiates every word. The ship, however, was by no means a large one: a Russian craft built on the Siberian coast, and purchased by my uncle after ... ...e in the floating body of a dead whale— even as the French soldiers in the Russian campaign turned their dead horses into tents, and crawled into them...

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...hich is current for ordinary purposes, even amongst the most scientific of astronomers. For the man of science, equally with the populace, talks of th... ... executors had offered him (the river) a huge travelling trunk, perhaps an Imperial or a Salisbury boot (equal to the wardrobe of a family), filled wi... ...e, sufficiently argues that the verses must have ploughed as deeply as the Russian knout. Vitriol could not scorch more fiercely. And yet the whole pa...

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..., ‘S’il nest pas tant sort peu impertinent?’ The advance of some German or Russian nobleman spared me further efforts. We were on shore, listening to ... ...ay, and we in our old Germany hold that the mind advances notwithstanding. Astronomers condescending to earthly philosophy may admit that advance in t... ...ook at, a tiger to touch. Both of them were animated by detestation of the Imperial uniform. They distrusted my skill in the manage- ment of the weapo... ...to Mr. Beltham at our meeting. I might trace it to one of the em- bassies, Imperial or Royal. No matter—there it is.’ I read a paragraph in which Otti... ... close of the aristocratic season there, he renewed an acquaintance with a Russian lady, Count- ess Kornikoff, and he and I parted. She disliked the M...

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...asured dig- nity of her step, you might for a moment have fancied her some imperial Medea of the Athenian stage—some V olumnia from Rome, ‘Or ruling b... ...are the travelling preparations of those that, possessing nothing, have no imperials to pack. She had Juvenal’s qualification for car- olling gaily th... ...and in point of space as well as in amount of forces, more extensive,) the Russian anabasis and katabasis of Napoleon. 3dly, That of a religious Exodu... ...ight (as it literally was in its commencement)—to the T artar siege of the Russian fortress Koulagina—the bloody engagement with the Cossacks in the m... ...sses at Ouchim—the surprisal by the Bashkirs and the advanced posts of the Russian army at Torgau—the private conspiracy at this point against the Kha... ...ind of support, and deriving his title in any degree from the favor of the Imperial Court, he became almost in that extent an object of hatred at home... ...ort of tax or fine levied for remunerating their own risks; and that great astronomers, as necessarily far trav- ellers into space, are entitled to a ... ...Glasgow, the stars are conscious of being watched every- where; and if all astronomers do not publish their observa- tions, all use them in their spec... ...e interplanetary ether, and other rarities, which the professional body of astronomers would naturally keep (if they could) for their own private enjo...

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... ANNA KARENINA A NOVEL BY COUNT LEO TOLSTOY Translated from the Russian BY CONSTANCE GARNETT DjVu Editions Copyright c 2002 by Global ... ...c. All rights reserved. First published in English, 1901. First published in Russian, 1877. “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.” Romans... ... district. “That’s how it always is!” Sergey Ivanovitch interrupted him. “We Russians are always like that. Perhaps it’s our strong point, really, the... ...immediately interested in the subject, and began seriously defending the new imperial decree against Princess Betsy, who had attacked it. Vronsky and ... ...hundred yards that followed it. The great barrier stood just in front of the imperial pavilion. The Tsar and the whole court and crowds of people were... ...t and in the same house in Petersburg, the daughter of the chief cook of the Imperial Household. This was Varenka. Madame Stahl learned later on that ... ...ht in saying that the stars move. Part VIII — Chapter 19 769 “And could the astronomers have understood and calculated anything, if they had taken in... ... always alike, and can always be trusted. And just as the conclusions of the astronomers would have been vain and uncertain if not founded on obser v...

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...sting in its way, of course, as a variety. The worst of it is it’s awfully Russian. There are no French women there. Of course, they could get them fa... ...nastery he met this elder. I must digress to explain what an “elder” is in Russian monas- teries, and I am sorry that I do not feel very competent to ... ... an elder are not the ordinary “obedience” which has always existed in our Russian monasteries. The obligation involves confession to the elder by all... ...sent to Pe- tersburg to the Cadet Corps, that I might afterwards enter the Imperial Guard. My mother hesitated for a long time, it was awful to part w... ...I think, flying round the earth without knowing why, like a satellite. The astronomers would calculate the rising and the setting of the axe; Gatzuk w...

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...could have been no retreat, and no retrieval of character. The greatest of astronomers, rather than seem ostentatious or unseason- ably learned, will ... ... dependencies of Rome, and, briefly, every state and city that adorned the imperial islands of the Mediterranean, or that glittered like gems in that ... ...bstinacy, might have been humored without prejudice to the grandeur of the imperial claims. Even little Palmyra in later times was indulged to a great... ...e days of the Flavian family, that the indulgence conceded to Judea by the imperial policy from Augustus downwards, arose out of the following little ... ...th century. The merest possibility exists, that in Armenia, or in a Graeco-Russian monastery on Mount Athos, or in Pompeii, &c., some authors hitherto...

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...c body, the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus. As when astronomers call the lately discovered planet Neptune; or the asteroid Astr... ...rints, or the thoughtless study, or the idle read, the litera ture of the Russians and the Chinese, or even French phi losophy and much of German cr... ... crownings. As the youth studied minutely the order and the degrees in the imperial proces sion, and suffered none of its effect to be lost on him, s... ...oroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,—these are some of our astronomers. There are perturbations in our orbits produced by the influ e...