The History of Peter the Great, Czar of Russia

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D. Appleton, 1858 - 233 стор.
 

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Сторінка 123 - T was but a day he had been caught ; And snorting, with erected mane, And struggling fiercely, but in vain, In the full foam of wrath and dread, To me the desert-born was led : They bound me on, that menial throng, Upon his back with many a thong, Then loosed him with a sudden lash — Away...
Сторінка 124 - We rustled through the leaves like wind, Left shrubs, and trees, and wolves behind; By night I heard them on the track, Their troop came hard upon our back, With their long gallop, which can tire The hound's deep hate, and hunter's fire...
Сторінка 64 - There is a house full of people, and right nasty. The czar lies next your library, and dines in the parlour next your study. He dines at ten o'clock, and six at night, is very seldom at home a whole day, very often in the King's Yard, or by water, dressed in several dresses. The king is expected here this day ; the best parlour is pretty clean for him to be entertained in. The king pays for all he has.
Сторінка 160 - Seignior, obtained a pass, and went thither in search of them ; and, getting acquainted with a Jew doctor, who was physician to the seraglio, the doctor told him there had been two such ladies as he described lately presented to the Sultan ; but that when any of the sex were once taken into the seraglio they were never suffered to come out again. The colonel, nevertheless, tried every expedient he could devise to recover his wife, if he could not get both, till, becoming outrageous by repeated disappointment,...
Сторінка 123 - Away, away, my steed and I, , Upon the pinions of the wind, All human dwellings left behind ; We sped like meteors through the sky...
Сторінка 207 - If his majesty is inclinable to punish the offender according to his deeds and the measure of his crimes, he has before him the examples in the Old Testament ; if, on the other hand, he is inclined to show mercy, he has a pattern in our Lord Jesus Christ, who receives the prodigal son, when returning with a contrite heart, who set free the woman taken in adultery, whom the law sentenced to be stoned to death, and who prefers mercy to bunrt-offerings.
Сторінка 198 - God has given me over you, denounce against you my eternal curse ; and, as your sovereign, declare to you that I will find means to punish your disobedience, in which I trust God himself will assist me, and espouse the just cause of an injured parent and king. " For the rest, remember that I have never laid any restraint upon you. Was I obliged to leave you at liberty to choose your way of life ? Had I not the power in my own hands to oblige you to conform to my will ? I had only to command, and...
Сторінка 205 - ... prejudice and partiality in their own affairs, than in those of others, and as the most eminent and expert physicians rely not on their own judgment concerning themselves, but call in the advice and assistance of others ; so we, under the fear of God, and an awful dread of offending him, in like manner make known our disease, and apply to you for a cure ; being apprehensive of eternal death, if ignorant perhaps of the nature of our distemper, we should attempt to cure ourselves : and the rather,...
Сторінка 196 - ... inclination at present to be true to your promises, yet a corrupt priesthood .will be able to turn you at pleasure, and force you to falsify them. They have no dependence but upon you. You have no sense of gratitude towards him who gave you your being. Have you ever assisted him in toils and labours...
Сторінка 172 - I can compare this transmigration of the sciences to nothing better than the circulation of the blood in the human body ; and my mind almost prognosticates that they will, some time or other, quit their abode in Britain, France, and Germany, to come and settle, for some centuries, among us ; and afterward perhaps return to their original home in Greece.

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