CLAUSEN, Heinrich Friedrich Christian. Characteristic Anecdotes from the History of Russia, with notes, chronological, biographical, and explanatory; forming a useful manual of Russian history. Translated from the French of the Counseller of State, Clausen, by B. Lambert. Printed by W. Flint, ... for T. Ostell. 1805
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¶Traits caractéristiques de l'histoire de Russie, 1804. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 'The history of Russia, in common with that of every other country in the universe, undoubtedly furnishes many instances, in its early stages, of vices carried to excess: but it also abounds in examples of the noblest virtues, bursting forth, genuine and unsophisticated, through the pure dictates of nature.'
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