TRAVELS IN THE SLAVONIC PROVINCES OF TURKEY-IN-EUROPE |
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Page 86 - and Kotzel, sent to the Emperor Michael and said, ' Our land is baptized, but we have no teachers who can instruct us or translate for us the sacred books. We do not understand either the Greek or the Latin language; some teach us one thing, some another; therefore we do not understand the words of the
Page 182 - Never let me hear that brave blood has been shed in vain ; it sends a roaring voice down through all time."— Saying of Sir Walter Scott. morning on which we entered
Page 86 - neither their import. Send us teachers who may explain to us the Scriptures.' When the Emperor Michael heard this, he called together his philosophers and told them the message of the Slavonic princes; and the philosophers said, 'There is at