Excerpt from Vindication of Russia and the Emperor Nicholas Few travellers ever render strict justice, even according to their capacities, to a foreign country or people - se1dom when there is a difference of religion and never, if there is any ground of rivalry between that country and their own. There is, naturally, a greater inclination to lie than to speak the truth, when any selfish purpose or feeling is to be served. A lie finds easier and readier belief when Spoken Of a foreign or hostile people; and in proportion to their distance and lack Of intercourse is the chance of detection or contradiction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.