The History of Poland: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time

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Cochrane and Pickersgill, 1831 - 428 ページ

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106 ページ - — within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court." The ceremony * is then concluded with a singular form. Every new king is obliged to appear in the
379 ページ - that the Polish subjects of the respective powers should obtain a representation and national institutions regulated by the mode of political existence, which each of the governments to which they belong shall think useful and proper to be granted.
370 ページ - In my situation I have many interests to conciliate and many duties to perform. If I had reigned at the time of the first, second, or third partition of Poland, I would have armed all my people to support you.
356 ページ - he answer the emperor's emissaries, " What ! despotism for despotism ; the Poles have enough of it at home, without going so far to purchase it at the price of their blood." * The more ardent and sanguine spirits among the Polish patriots were not so sceptical, but engaged in the campaign with the highest hopes.
23 ページ - luxuries of Asia ; here was the noble architecture of Athens festooned with the gaudy tapestry of Lydia, and the rough metal of Russian swords embossed with the polished gold of Ophir and Persia. The hardy natives had plunged into the stream of pleasure with all the zest of novelty, and were tasting of
334 ページ - townspeople, old men, women, and children, were murdered in cold blood, and to fill the measure of their iniquity and barbarity, the Russians fired the place in four different parts, and in a few hours the whole of Praga, inhabitants as well as houses, was a heap of ashes.
172 ページ - or imprisoned. Three persons, accused of throwing the Virgin's image into the fire, lost their right arms, and the whole city were deprived of the freedom of public worship *. The persecuted dissidents carried their complaints before all the Protestant princes ; and Prussia, Great
370 ページ - of Poland, I would have armed all my people to support you. ... I love your nation ; during the last sixteen years I have seen your soldiers at my side in the fields of Italy, as well as those of Spain.
393 ページ - The duchy of Warsaw, with the exception of those provinces and districts which are otherwise disposed of by the following articles, is united to Russia. // shall be irrevocably bound to
332 ページ - he was recognized notwithstanding the plainness of his uniform, and was found still breathing. His name even now commanded respect from the Cossacks, some of whom had been going to plunder him ; they immediately formed a litter with their lances to carry him to the general, who ordered his wounds to be dressed and treated him with the

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