Petrograd, Past and PresentGrant Richards Limited, 1915 - 319 pagina's |
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Pagina 280 - Parliament to stop Dagenham Breach, which he Effected, and thereby Preserved the Navigation of the River of Thames, and Rescued many Private Familys from Ruin. He after departed this Life in this Town, and was here Interr'd, February 13, 1732; Aged 63 years.
Pagina 67 - With the wine cup in one hand and the cimetar in the other, he swallowed twenty bumpers and cut off twenty heads in a single hour, and as if proud of the achievement, he invited the ambassador of Prussia to try his skill. Eighty of the guilty janizaries were subsequently held up by the hair before the crowd and decapitated by the hand of the infuriated Czar.
Pagina 227 - To save the Russian remnant, Alexander journeys repeatedly to the Western Tartar army (or Golden Horde) upon the Volga — once at least to the Great Khan in Mongolia (1246-50). Death overtakes him on his way home from the Golden Horde in 1263. The news reaches Novgorod as the Eucharist is finishing; turning to the people, Archbishop Cyril tells the disaster — "The sun of the Russian land has set, my children.
Pagina 68 - ... nobles to complete the destruction with the sword. With the wine cup in one hand, a scimitar in the other, he swallowed twenty bumpers and cut off twenty heads in a single hour, and as if proud of the achievement, invited the ambassador to try * A cry of the Tartars, by which they excite their horses.
Pagina 67 - Peter superintended and assisted in the execution of the soldiers who had opposed his innovations. " Seated upon a throne, he witnessed the dying agonies of two thousand of the Strelitz, and when tired of the rack, he compelled his nobles to complete their destruction with the sword. With the wine cup in one hand and the cimetar in the other, he swallowed twenty bumpers and cut off...
Pagina 227 - ... Alexander dominates Novgorod. He even makes the Republic diplomatic. After the intoxicating victories of the Neva over the Swedes (1240), and of Lake Chudskoe over the German Knights (1242), it was hard to submit to the Mongol taxgatherer (as in 1259). But Alexander realizes that to defy the Horde is to complete the desolation of Russia. The hero of Novgorod at last persuades her of the humiliating truth. He rides out with the Mongol emissaries, whom he had guarded day and night from mob violence,...
Pagina 107 - Russia, and a Codex containing the four Evangelists, on purple vellum in letters of gold, which came from a monastery of St. John, in Asia Minor. The choicest gem of the collection is, of course, the Codex Sinaiticus, obtained by Tischendorf at the convent of St. Catherine on Mt. Sinai. Facsimiles and translations have made all students familiar with this venerable record. These literary...
Pagina 59 - Catherine, from whom he received orders to ' steal ' the pretender and so cut off the intrigue at the very outset. Orloff surrounded the Princess with spies, and, through his emissaries, tried to inspire her with confidence in himself.
Pagina 179 - He was born in 1836, and was an exception to the Russian commercial man of his day, having studied the violin and piano in his youth, and found time, amid the demands of a large business, to occupy his leisure with chamber music. I recall in him a brusque, energetic and somewhat choleric personality of the ' rough diamond ' type ; a passionate but rather indiscriminate enthusiast, and an autocrat.
Pagina 261 - Russo-Chinese operations he stated, with regard to the occupation of Manchuria, that Russia was not in a fit state to carry on an aggressive policy. In the beginning of 1903, five months before he retired from the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs, and...