Letters from Russia by Astolphe De Custine

Author:Astolphe De Custine
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-59017-534-7
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2012-04-25T04:00:00+00:00

[1]I have purposely changed the names of the persons and places, with the especial object of disguising the true ones; and I have also taken the liberty of correcting, in the style, a few expressions foreign to the genius of our language. †This pretty name is that of a Russian saint.

[2]The use of images is always forbidden to a certain point in the Greek church, in which, the true believers admit only those of a particular conventional style, covered with various gold and silver ornaments, under which the merit of the work is entirely lost.

[3]Dante, Paradiso, cant. 33. i. v.

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