Eastern Europe and the emperor Nicholas, by the author of 'Revelations of Russia'. |
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Sivu 113 - Charte et de nos institutions, qu'il était impossible d'obtenir, il aurait suffi d'un peu de prudence et de modération, pour que ce gouvernement pût aller longtemps comme il allait. Mais, depuis le 8 août 1829, la nouvelle composition du nouveau ministère m'avait fort alarmé.
Sivu 113 - Je voyais à quel point cette composition était odieuse et suspecte à la nation, et je partageais l'inquiétude générale sur les mesures que nous devions en attendre. Néanmoins, l'attachement aux lois, l'amour de l'ordre, ont fait de tels progrès...
Sivu 122 - Where, in his loneliness forgetting His broken sword, his ruin'd throne, With bitter grief, with vain regretting, On his fair Boy he mused alone. But shame, and curses without number, Upon that reptile head be laid, Whose insults now shall vex the slumber Of him — that sad discrowned shade ! No ! for his trump the signal sounded, Her glorious race when Russia ran ; His hand, 'mid strife and battle, founded Eternal liberty for man ! The next specimen for which we have to request the indulgence of...
Sivu 86 - I could have armed a great portion of the Russian population against the remainder, by proclaiming the enfranchisement of the serfs. I was asked to do so by the population of many, villages, but on considering the debased and barbarous condition of the Russian peasantry, I could not think of adopting a measure which would have been the signal for putting to death and torturing whole families.
Sivu 113 - Charles et son gouvernement ne suivissent pas une marche mieux calculée pour répondre à l'attente et au vœu de la nation. J'étais bien loin, pourtant, de prévoir les prodigieux...
Sivu 63 - The imperial serf is not either liable to the same privations which the private serf endures, nor to the same extent of capricious cruelty of which he is at times the victim. He can more readily obtain leave to move about the empire ; and he enjoys some of the advantages of belonging to an extensive and wealthy proprietor — but then it is of an absentee proprietor, who has abandoned the administration of his overgrown estates to overseers and agents. The vast and corrupt body which...
Sivu 57 - ... the private serfs," says the author just quoted, " differs as much as the character of as many masters. The vices, the personal inhumanity, the avarice, the necessities, the inattention or absenteeism of the lord, all operate upon the destiny of the slave," — p. 54. " Practically, the private slave is life and limb at the disposal of his master, as completely as slaves ever have been in any country. He can be sold or hired out like a beast of burden The master may remove one or all his peasants,...
Sivu 139 - Nicholas he writes less contentiously of Krylov as a writer who trod a cautious path between biting satires of officialdom and criticism of excessive freedom: But though the genius of Kriloff is essentially caustic and satirical, he has always been restrained by prudential considerations; and ever alarmed at his own daring, where he has shown any boldness in one of his fables, he directly publishes another which contains some commonplace moral, palatable to the absolute spirit of his government.33...
Sivu 65 - Whenever," — and this is a most serious drawback from the favourable side of the picture — " Whenever, by his industry and intelligence, a crown serf has succeeded in acquiring agricultural wealth, converting his hut and his patch of ground into flourishing farms, and having erected valuable buildings, after the lapse of a certain number of years he is suddenly transplanted for life to a distant government ; in which case the property which he has collected, and which he must leave behind, falls...
Sivu 59 - ... completely as slaves ever have been in any country. He can be sold or hired out like a beast of burden The master may remove one or all his peasants, for life, from one estate to another, though thousands of miles apart No respect is paid to the feelings of the father, of the husband, of the daughter, or the wife ; and there are no purposes, the most infamous, to which the slave is not always liable to be devoted, and frequently applied,