Universal History, Ancient and Modern: From the Earliest Records of Time, to the General Peace of 1801 ...I. Collins and son, 1805 - World history |
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Page 428 - You will find money enough in the treasury for the public expenses. I trust in God that I shall not long be absent, as I am only gone on a small excursion, in order to teach a young gentleman in the neighbourhood his military exercise !"f Frederic was also accustomed to call the war he was now engaged in, " The lawsuit, in which he had gone, like a bailiff...
Page 417 - The Frederician Code; or, a Body of Law for the Dominions of the King of Prussia, founded on Reason and the Constitution of the Country.
Page 219 - How dreadful is the situation of a person surprised in the fields by such a storm ! his knowledge of the country, and even the mark he may have taken by the trees, cannot avail him ; he is blinded by snow, and if he attempts to return home, is generally lost.
Page 69 - Having concluded these words, he took the princess in his arms, and threw her into the river, with the pearls, diamonds, and other ornaments, with which she was adorned. What heightened the barbarity of this action was, that the lady was equally admired for the endowments of her mind as for the beauty of her person, and had always treated him with the .- •* greatest kindness.
Page 89 - Russian nobility and clergy, who condemned that unhappy, though seemingly weak and dissolute prince, to suffer death, — but without prescribing the manner in which it should be inflicted'. The event, however, took place, and suddenly. Alexis was seized with strong convulsions, and expired soon after the dreadful sentence was announced to him ; but whether in consequence of the agony occasioned by such alarming intelligence, or by other means, is uncertain*. We only know, that Peter then had, by...
Page 108 - Alarmed at the smallness of their number, she hesitated for a moment, and at length assured them in a tremulous voice, " that she had been driven by her danger to the necessity of asking their assistance ; that her death,- together with that of her son, had been decreed by the czar that very night ; that flight had been her only means of escape ; and that her confidence in their attachment had led her to put herself into their hands !" Her auditors trembled with indignation, and swore to die in her...
Page 290 - ... slightly acquainted with books ; a Goth in his manners, and a savage in his resentments ; resolute even to obstinacy, inexorable in vengeance, and inaccessible to sympathy, he has little to conciliate our love or esteem. But his wonderful intrepidity and perseverance in enterprise, his firmness under misfortune, his contempt of danger, and his enthusiastic passion for glory, will ever command our admiration.
Page 284 - Rosen, had the presence of mind to observe, that the chancery-house, which was but fifty paces distant, had a stone roof, and was proof against fire ; that they ought to sally forth, take possession of that house, and then defend themselves. " There is a true Swede for you...
Page 219 - ... that have been maimed, and had an arm or a leg frozen off. The cold, which is always very great, increases sometimes by such violent and sudden fits, as are almost infallibly fatal to those that happen to be exposed to it.
Page 271 - Do not," said she to the states, "compel me to make a choice : should I bear a son, it is equally probable that he might prove a Nero as an Augustus." Christina had an opportunity to display her magnanimity in the early part of her reign. While she was engaged in her devotions in the chapel of the castle at Stockholm, a lunatic rushed through the crowd, and attempted to stab her with a knife. He was seized, and Christina calmly continued her devotions.