The Life of Catharine II, Empress of Russia: With Seven Portraits Elegantly Engraved, and a Correct Map of the Ruusian Empire, Band 1

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T.N. Longman, and O. Rees ... and J. Debrett, 1799 - 572 Seiten

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Seite 288 - Yes, madame," answered Munich, in a firm and manly tone; "could I do less for the prince who delivered me from captivity? But it is henceforward my duty to fight for you ; and you will find in me a fidelity equal to that with which I had devoted my services to him.
Seite 411 - ... and that title, his youth, and even the obfcurity which attended his life, and which therefore gave latitude for conjecture and invention, formed very proper materials for working on the minds of the populace. At the moment when Catharine was taking her departure from the refidence, fhe had intelligence of frefh confpiracies among the guards.
Seite 297 - Catharine, asking her to let him have a favourite negro who amused him by his oddities, together with a dog he was fond of, his violin, a Bible, and a few romances ; at the same time telling her, that, disgusted at the wickedness of mankind, he was resolved thenceforward to devote himself to a philosophical life. Not one of these requests was granted, and his plans of wisdom were turned into ridicule.
Seite 550 - ... evidence, the diforder of his imagination. To prevent, therefore, ill-intentioned perfons from giving him any trouble, or from making ufe of his name or orders to difturb the public tranquillity, we gave him a guard, and placed about his perfon two officers of the garrifon, in whofe fidelity and integrity we could confide. Thefe officers were captain...
Seite 353 - ... ftep they had taken : others, who wanted only to live in idlenefs, wondered that they were to begin again to work, as it was exactly on that very account that they had left their home. — This whole method of fettling colonies, however, is very far from being the beft. A government moft furely improves the country by regulations and inftitutions of a humane and gentle...
Seite 267 - Peterhoff, the emperor ran to the pavilion that had been occupied by Catharine ; and in his confufion, in his extreme concern, he looked about for her, as if fhe might have been concealed under the bed, or in one of the cupboards. He overwhelmed all he met with queftions ; but nobody could give him any fatisfaction. Thofe of greater penetration than the reft already forefaw the whole extent of his misfortune, but were filent, that they might not increafe his affright. Countefs...
Seite 284 - ... him up alone in a room, with a guard at the door. Count Panin, being fent by the emprefs, was admitted to the tzar, and had a long conference with him. 'He told him that her majefty would not long keep him in confinement, but fend him into Holftein according to his own requeft.
Seite 545 - Your philosophy is founded in a love to mankind: permit me then to tell you, that to refuse to serve mankind whilst it is in your power...
Seite 552 - ... feduced from their duty, and rendered the accomplices of his crime. Then it was, that the two officers, who had...
Seite 411 - All perfons, however, were not fo thoroughly convinced of the incapacity of this prince. He was now arrived at the age of twenty-four years, and he might evidently be made an inftrument, or at leaft a pretence, for exciting dangerous commotions.

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