... Jesuits out of the country? No ; for four very good reasons. First, Louis PHILIPPE has not a woman to deal with in the Persian Shah; next, a Russian Ambassador would not be insulted with the same impunity as a British Consul; thirdly, the Protestant ...

... grudge to Russia the possession of the Persian deserts, although it would make her a still nearer neighbour. Even now, the Persian Shah is, like the Austrian Cxsar, little more than the vassal of the CZAR; and Khiva, on the high road to Herat, is said to ...