The History of the Revolutions of Russia, to the Accession of Catharine the First: Including a Concise Review of the Manners and Customs of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesT.N. Longmans and O. Rees, 1803 - 708 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 220 - No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise. A civil war indeed is like the heat of a fever, but a foreign war is like the heat of exercise, and serveth to keep the body in health, for in a slothful peace both courages will effeminate and manners corrupt.
الصفحة 5 - THE HISTORY of the REVOLUTIONS of RUSSIA, to the Accession of Catharine the First, including a concise Review of the Manners and Customs of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
الصفحة 571 - From thence he occafionally fent one of his confidential pages with a complimentary meflage to the emprefs, as if he had been in the country, and with fecret orders to obferve her motions. From the page's information, the emperor, on the third night, furprifed...
الصفحة 651 - ... ordered his subjects of all ranks and conditions to acknowledge as lawful heir to the crown, " by oath before the holy altar, upon the holy gospels, kissing the cross." So great was his distress at this event, that while it lasted Russia remained without a sovereign, the senate without a magistrate, and the army without a chief, to execute the ordinary functions of the state. Catherine, although tenderly alive to the feelings of mother and wife, refused to indulge her grief at the expense of...
الصفحة 567 - He had compromiied the Rupture between the Court of England and the Czar, He was invited to a Ball at Court, and taken out to dance by the Czarina. As they began the Minuet, She fqueezed him by the Hand, and faid in a Whifper, Have you forgot little Kate...
الصفحة 244 - Elizabeth, by the Grace of God Queen of England Fraunce and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.
الصفحة 245 - Kingdom fitt vppon your owne charge, as longe as ye shall like to remaine with vs. And yf it shall seeme good vnto you the Emperour and great Duke^ to depart from our countries, wee shall suffer you with all yours quietlie to depart either into your empire of Muscovia, or els whither it shall best like you to passe through our dominions and countries.
الصفحة 11 - CIVIL LIBERTY is the not being restrained by any law, but what conduces in a greater degree to the public welfare.
الصفحة 245 - ... your highnes houshold from you or to suffer anie of yours to be taken from you by violence. Besides wee shall appointe you the Emperour and great Duke a place in our Kingdom fitt vppon your owne charge, as longe as ye shall like to remaine with vs.
الصفحة 269 - ... from the Baltic to the Euxine, from the mouth of the Oder to the port of Constantinople. In the days of idolatry and barbarism, the Sclavonic city of Julin was frequented and enriched by the Normans, who had prudently secured a free mart of purchase and exchange.