The Life of Catharine II, Empress of Russia ...A. Strahan, 1800 |
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Sivu 319 - ... and obliging, politic and confiding, licentious and superstitious, bold and timid, ambitious and indiscreet, lavish of his bounties to his relations, his mistresses, and his favourites, yet frequently paying neither his household nor his creditors. His consequence always depended on a woman, and he was always unfaithful to her. Nothing could equal the activity of his mind, nor the indolence of his body. No dangers could appal his courage, no difficulties force him to abandon his projects. But...
Sivu 458 - Sweden, had chofen to depart from it in the moment when ftie was engaged in a war fo ferious as that in which the Ottoman Porte had involved her. In the mean time, the emprefs, attentive to every thing which...
Sivu 279 - ... of Your Imperial Majefty) have taken arms againft the enemy of the Chriftian name, and deputed us to lay the 'offer of their lives and their fortunes at the foot of Your imperial throne; it was not till we had loft all hopes of...
Sivu 466 - Poland, if, hi each augmentation of the army of Poland, a power is not given to engage the republic in a war which is abfolutely foreign to it, and confequently leading to grievous confequences. The king is flattered, that his majefty the king of Poland, and the ftates of the ferene republic...
Sivu 273 - Turks being excited in fuch a degree by .the fhamefulnefs of their defeat, (which, as ufual, they attributed entirely to their general,) that they difdained to accept of quarter The whole camp as it flood, including the grand vizir's tents and equipage, became a prey to the victors...
Sivu 442 - ... to put an end, once for all, to the troubles in the Crimea; and, for this...
Sivu 27 - Catholics particularly refpedled, and that they fhould enjoy in the fulleft manner the liberty of exercifing their religion. The pacific difpofition of the Porte, and the terms propofed in. confequence of it, were of no avail in bringing about an accommodation with her two great and ambitious neighbours. Their demands appeared fo exorbitant, that it became a queftion, even with the wife and moderate, whether it were not better at once to put every thing to the...
Sivu 225 - ... to allay. It was even rumoured (and rumour is not always unfounded, particularly in defpotic governments), that, in the height of refentment, an idea was once entertained of reviving the title of the grand duke to the crown of Sweden, as fucceflbr to the late unfortunate emperor Peter the Third, who had, unhappily for himfelf...
Sivu 491 - ... nation. However, all Europe has feen in what manner they have been received and appropriated. To open to the confederation of Targovich the road by which they might attain the exercife of their rights and legal power, it was neceflary to take up arms, and the authors of the revolution of the jd of May 1791, and their adherents, have...
Sivu 216 - ... numerous fleet at the mouth of the Nieper, where the fervice grew warm between him and the prince of Naflau, who, with his flotilla of gallies and light veffels, oppofed, with great fuccefs, the attempts of the enemy to become mailers of that river. Two if not three, defperate and bloody engagements...