History of the eighteenth century and of the nineteenth till the overthrow of the French empire, tr., with a preface and notes, by D. Davison, Band 6 |
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Seite 39 - Oui, Monsieur, nous avons entendu les intentions qu'on a suggérées au Roi, et vous qui ne sauriez être son organe auprès des États-Généraux, vous qui n'avez ici ni place, ni voix, ni droit de parler, vous n'êtes pas fait pour nous rappeler son discours
Seite 125 - 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.
Seite 276 - 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...
Seite 121 - ... 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...
Seite 498 - 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...
Seite 125 - 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.
Seite 125 - 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.
Seite 276 - ... that the care of the king's person and the disposition of the royal household should be committed to the queen, who would by this means be vested with the patronage of four hundred places, amongst which were the great offices of lord steward, lord chamberlain, and the master of the horse.
Seite 277 - On that day Mr Conolly moved, that an address should be presented to the prince of Wales, requesting him to take on himself the government of that kingdom during his Majesty's incapacity, which, after a stormy debate, was carried without a division.