A Sketch of the Military and Political Power of Russia: In the Year 1817 ...Kirk and Mercein, 1817 - 208 Seiten |
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A Sketch of the Military and Political Power of Russia: In the Year 1817 Sir Robert Thomas Wilson Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2019 |
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Alexander alliance allied army allied sovereigns amongst Asia attack Austria battle Black Sea British campaign capital Carpathian mountains Caucasus cavalry chambre des pairs command conduct corps crown Danube defence Dniester Dresden Duchy of Warsaw eighty thousand Emperor Emperor of Austria empire enemy engaged England established Europe European favour feelings fifty thousand Finland force foreign fortune France French army frontier garrison grand allied guard honour hundred thousand inhabitants interests King laws liberty Louis Mantua ment miles military millions minister misfortune Moldavia monarchy Moscow Murat Napoleon nation negotiate never notwithstanding numbers obliged obtained operations Paris party peace Persia Petersburgh Poland political population ports position possession preserve Prince proposed provinces reign rendered retreat river Russia Russian army Saxony sian Sweden Swedish tain throne tion treaty troops Turkey Turks twenty thousand vernment Vide Vienna Vistula Warsaw whilst whole Wurtemburg
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Seite 129 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
Seite 100 - Private persons and property shall be equally respected. The inhabitants, and, in general, all individuals who shall be in the capital, shall continue to enjoy their rights and liberties without being disturbed or called to account, either as to the situations which they hold, or may h.ivc lielJ, or as to their conduct or political opinions.
Seite 12 - Mentor, endowed with intelligence and virtue, exercised the authority of a despotic sovereign to establish philanthropy as the basis of his throne. An enemy to the costly vanities of...
Seite 162 - ... the crime itself will be regarded with more indulgence by posterity than any irregular mode of punishing it. Allowance for individuals is made in all great changes. It is difficult in sudden emergencies and great convulsions of state, especially for professional men whose lives have been passed in. camps, to weigh maturely all the considerations by which their conduct should, in the strict line of duty, be regulated. Unforeseen cases occur, and men of good principles and understanding are hurried...
Seite 104 - ... such as might have so offended ? In Egypt the French stipulated that no natives should be molested for their conduct or opinions during the war. We took military possession of the country on those terms, and then delivered it over to the political authority of the Ottoman Porte.
Seite vii - Russia, he contended that: Russia, profiting by the events which have afflicted Europe, has not only raised her ascendancy on natural sources, sufficient to maintain a preponderating power, but, farther...
Seite 64 - Schwartzenberg, for a few instants was silent, and Talleyrand was uneasy if not alarmed. Schwartzenberg, however, probably unwilling to charge himself with the responsibility of a refusal, (his sovereign and Metternich being absent,) did not finally withhold his assent: and thus by two foreign sovereigns, ^foreign marshal, and an ex-minister, was Louis chosen — King of France!
Seite 85 - It is the curse of kings, to be attended By slaves, that take their humours for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life ; And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humour, than advis'd respect.
Seite 188 - ... of the internal administration of France, or in any manner that might compromise or interfere with the free exercise of the royal authority in this country, the allied sovereigns have, however, in consideration of the high interest which they take in supporting the power of legitimate sovereigns, promised to his most Christian Majesty to support him with their arms against every revolutionary convulsion...
Seite 34 - ... fellow men, while thousands of horses were moaning in agony, with their flesh mangled and hacked to satisfy the cravings of a hunger that knew no pity. In many of the sheds, men scarcely alive, had heaped on their frozen bodies human carcasses, which, festering by the communication of animal heat, had mingled the dying and the dead in one mass of putrefaction.