 | Mary Hays - Women - 1803 - 456 pages
..." That the Porte had been so arrogant as to insist on a categorical. answer to its absurd demand* : that the empress,. forced to repel the aggression...printed, in which prophecies predicting the speedy rum of Constantinople were published and circulated. On the side of the enemy also, an angel appeared... | |
 | C. G. Hunter - Soviet Union - 1817 - 422 pages
...empress therefore is constrained to repel the aggression of the enemy of the Christian name, having armed herself with confidence under the protection of that righteous God, who has so long and so powerfully protected the Russian empire." Hostilities commenced with the Sheik Mansour... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - Kievan Rus - 1855 - 552 pages
...That the Porte had arrogantly presumed to insist on a categorical answer to its absurd demands; and that the empress, forced to repel the aggression of...herself with confidence, under the protection of that just God who had so long and so powerfully shielded the Russian empire." the preparations for the war... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - World History - 1904 - 708 pages
...that the Porte had arrogantly presumed to insist on a categorical answer to its absurd demands; and that the empress, forced to repel the aggression of...herself with confidence, under the protection of that just God who had so long and so powerfully shielded the Russian Empire. Had Potemkin been as great... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - World history - 1907 - 786 pages
...that the Porte had arrogantly presumed to insist on a categorical answer to its absurd demands; and that the empress, forced to repel the aggression of...herself with confidence, under the protection of that just God who had so long and so powerfully shielded the Russian Empire. [1787-1788 AD] beforehand.... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - World history - 1907 - 704 pages
...that the Porte had arrogantly presumed to insist on a categorical answer to its absurd demands; and that the empress, forced to repel the aggression of...armed herself with confidence, under the protection of thatiust God who had so long and so powerfully shielded the Russian Empire. Had Potemkin been as great... | |
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... of her allies, but on the prayers of the Christian world, for triumph in a cause so just as that which she was obliged to defend. This manifesto was soon followed up by a second, which declared that the Porte had arrogantly presumed to insist on a... 