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Snow-storms galloping snowy chargers howled over the Steppe, the Volga, and the town. Elemental, all-devastating, as in the days of Stenka Razin thundered the Revolution. The rooms in the ancient mansion were damp, dark and chilly.
From hence, to an almost interminable extent, there is a most superb view of the surrounding country; nothing can be more varied, grand, and sublime; every spot spared by the all-devastating lavas, is highly cultivated; the vines and other productive fruit-trees are seen laden with the most delicious fruits; the groves of olives, the towns and villages, in almost endless aerial perspective, all terminated by the distant and deep-blue sea, form a scene the most enchanting that can be conceived.
The continual massacres of the Greek and Roman kings and chiefs, and the extermination of nations by them the all-devastating warfare of the Timurs and Gengis Khans are in general not more to be met with; only my own dear fatherland was doomed to experience once more the cruelties of the Timurs and Gengis Khans out of the sacrilegious hands of the dynasty of Austria, which calumniates Christianity by calling itself Christian.
Despite all efforts to check it by medication and by direct inoculation, it swept now and then over the earth as an all-devastating pestilence, and year by year it claimed one-tenth of all the beings in Christendom by death as its average quota of victims. "From small-pox and love but few remain free," ran the old saw.
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