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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: those whom they protect. Besides the baneful effects thus occasioned in the general condition of Wallachia, the tone of society, intrinsically so tsorrupt that, like the Citres of the Valley, Bucharest seems to be awaiting the fll of fire from above, although there certainly may be more than one just Lot to single out from its inhabitants, is evidently still further lowered by the example of those powerful partisans, who rarely wear that conventional mask of hypocrisy which is the involuntary homage of vice to virtue even in the most depraved communities. Gambling, too, is also encouraged to an inordinate degree by the Russians and their adherents, most of whom are notoriously addicted to that demoralising folly, and, with the aid of ostentation and extravagance, it has reduced almost all the principal families of Wallachia to a state of impending ruin. Of all this it would be unjust to suppose that the cabinet of St. Petersburgh is fully informed; but still a degree of responsibility must always rest with it on the score of apparent indifference as to the personal conduct of some of the highest of its agents in the Danubian rrincipalities; and if, as is contended by many, that indifference be not merely apparent but real?if it be positively the wish of Russia to create disorders of every kind in Wallachia and Moldavia, political and social, material and moral? why, then the proportion of culpability is only the greater. THE VOICES OF NIGHT. BY J. E. CARPENTER. When the lonely woods are stil , Oh how sweet to rove at will, When the night-bird's plaintive song Floats the cv'ning breeze along, ? List'ning, in their onward flight, To the voices of the night, That seem whispering to the flowers From a brighter world than ours Hark what music greets mine ear On the bree..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217517850 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217517854 |
| Weight | 1.88 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.30 In |
| List Price | $37.67 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 586 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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