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chap. self, and to his God — were such as drunken 
* n '.’ ; Barnaby might have expressed in Latin, but 
cannot be told in English. 
Se rviie The picture of Russian manners varies little 
Empire." 10 with reference to the Prince or the peasant. 
The first nobleman in the empire, when dis- 
missed by his Sovereign from attendance upon 
his person, or withdrawing to his estate in con- 
sequence of dissipation and debt, betakes him- 
self to a mode of life little superior to that of 
brutes. You will then find him, throughout the 
day, with his neck bare, his beard lengthened, 
his body wrapped in a sheep’s skin, eating raw 
turnips, and drinking quass; sleeping one half 
of the day, and growling at his wife and family 
the other. The same feelings, the same wants, 
wishes, and gratifications, then characterize the 
nobleman and the peasant; and the same system 
of tyranny, extending from the throne down- 
wards, through all the bearings and ramifica- 
tions of society, even to the cottage of the 
lowest boor, has entirely extinguished every 
spark of liberality in the breasts of a people 
composed entirely of slaves. They are all, 
high and low, rich and poor, alike servile to 
superiors ; haughty and cruel to their depen- 
dants ; ignorant, superstitious, cunning, brutal, 
barbarous, dirty, mean. The Emperor canes 
