History of the Eighteenth Century and of the Nineteenth Till the Overthrow of the French Empire: With Particular Reference to Mental Cultivation and Progress, Volumen6Chapman and Hall, 1845 |
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Página 133 - Catherine's love for Lanskoi had been romantic in his life, and her sorrow at his death was not less extravagant; but notwithstanding all this ideality, she had been also careful to show him substantial proofs of her affection at the cost of the country. She bestowed upon him not only all possible titles, orders, and decorations — diamonds, plate, and collections of every kind, but he left behind him in cash a property of 7,000,000 rubles.
Página 284 - Pitt, informing his royal highness of the plan meant to be pursued : that the care of the king's person and the disposition of the royal household should be committed to the queen...
Página 129 - ... did what had been done by the king of Poland a few years before ; by his consent he changed that into a righteous and legal possession which, being seized in the midst of peace, was previously a robbery. The whole territory of the Tatars, the Crimea, the island of Taman, and a great part of the Kuban were ceded to Russia, and a treaty of commerce was forced upon the Turks, by virtue of which the Russian consuls in the various ports of Turkey were erected into a power wholly independent of the...
Página 510 - New Thought" was its treatment of Descartes' teachings.25 Descartes had dedicated his Mithode to the Sorbonne,26 predicting that, if their approval could be bestowed on his writings, the arguments whereby he had sought to demonstrate the truth of the existence of a God and the immortality of the soul would then find such acceptance by both the learned and the scientific world that atheism would disappear from among civilized mankind.27 Rome had not condemned him, the government had not proceeded...
Página 133 - Lanskoi was no sooner evaporated than the empress allowed Potemkin, who presented candidates for every office, to supply her with a substitute for her departed lover. In order to exclude all other pretenders, Potemkin on every such occasion was prepared to fill the vacancy ; and with this view he had for some time made Lieutenant lennolov one of his adjutants.
Página 174 - Suvarov himself, in his official report of this murderous enterprise, states that in the course of four days 33,000 Turks were either slain or mortally wounded, and 10,000 taken prisoners. He rates the loss of the Russians at 2000 killed...
Página 48 - ... tribunal, cour ou commission, qui oseraient, pendant ou après la présente session, poursuivre, rechercher, arrêter ou faire arrêter, détenir ou faire détenir un député pour raison d'aucunes propositions, avis, opinions, ou discours par lui faits aux...
Página 133 - The empress expressed her displeasure without naming the person who had made her acquainted with the unhappy fate of the khan ; Potemkin, however, easily guessed that no man in the empire would dare to speak ill of him to the empress except Yermolof. He therefore threateningly replied, " That must have been said by the White Moor," as he was accustomed to call Yermolof, on account of his fair countenance and flat nose.