Characteristic anecdotes from the history of Russia, tr. by B. LambertT. Ostell, 1805 - 207 sivua |
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Sivu 154 - Berezof, but to end their days in that place of solitude. When Menzikoff found his death approaching, he called his children to his bedside, and thus addressed them : " My children, I draw near to my last hour; death, the thoughts of which have been familiar to me since I have been here, would have nothing terrible in it, if I had only to account to the Supreme Judge for the time I have passed in misfortune. Hitherto your hearts have been free from corruption ; you will preserve your innocence better...
Sivu 108 - None, •ire," replied the governor. " How happens that ? " " I endeavour to prevent lawsuits, and conciliate the parties ; I act in such a manner that no traces of difference remain on the archives ; if I am wrong, your indulgence will excuse me.
Sivu 13 - 1 have five sons, four of whom are in the army ; as valiant as they are, none of them is equal to the fifth, who possesses prodigious strength." The young man was immediately sent for. Being brought before the prince, he asked permission to make a public trial of his strength. A vigorous bull was irritated with...
Sivu 75 - Russia, in 1652, was remarkable for his beneficence. la time of scarcity, the poor flocked in crowds to partake of his bounty ; and not a day passed in which he did not distribute bread and money.
Sivu 155 - Menzikoff's younger (laughter, and his son, returned to Russia ; and the Dolgoroukis felt, in their turn, all the horrors they had contributed to inflict on the Menzikoffs ; with this aggravation, that the same person who conducted them to Berezof...
Sivu 108 - GOVERNOR.— Peter the Great frequently surprised the magistrates by his unexpected presence in the cities of the empire. Having arrived without previous notice at Olonez, he went first to the regency, and inquired of the governor how many suits were depending in the Court of Chancery ? " None, lire," replied the governor.
Sivu 13 - Petcbe* negians was a man of an athletic make and colossal stature, who, vain of his strength, paced the bank of the river, loading the Russians with every species of insult, and provoking them by threatening gestures to enter the lists with him, at the same time ridiculing their timidity. The soldiers...
Sivu 67 - I must content myself with soliciting you to take my child under your guardianship ; he has not been educated in the difficult art of governing mankind ; but you have elected him — you insist on him for your monarch, and if he does not fulfil your expectations, you alone will be answerable to God for the events of which your choice may be the . cause ; but as for me, I have done my duty to my God, my country, and my child.
Sivu 14 - Pe4chencgian could not restrain a contemptuous smile when he observed the apparent weakness of his adversary, who was yet without a beard : but being quickly attacked with as much impetuosity as vigour, seized, crushed between the arms of the young Russian, he is stretched expiring on the d'jst.
Sivu 13 - ... time. At length an old man approached Wladimir; — •" My lord/' said he, " I have five sons, four of .whom are in the army; as valiant as they are, none of them is equal to the fifth, who possesses prodigious strength.