 | World history - 1762 - 664 pages
...fubjedts : but that a poor ftranger, who had been difcovered amidft the ruins of a plundered town, {hould become the abfolute fovereign of that very empire...and merit have never before produced in the annals c: the world. THE czar's arms were equally fuccefsful in Ingria ; foe the Rufsian half-gallies on the... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - Russia - 1834 - 344 pages
...ruins of a plundered town, should become the absolute sovereign of that very empire into which she was led captive, is an incident which fortune and...never before produced in the annals of the world." The arms of the Tzar, in the course of this campaign of 1702, were equally successful in Ingria as in Livonia.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 578 pages
...ruins of a plundered town, should become the absolute sovereign of that very empire into which she was led captive, is an incident which fortune and...never before produced in the annals of the world."] felicity. I wander, but they are at rest; they suffer few changes but what pass in my own restless... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 582 pages
...ruins of a plundered town, should become the absolute sovereign of that very empire into which she was led captive, is an incident which fortune and...never before produced in the annals of the world."] felicity. I wander, but they are at rest; they suffer few changes but what pass in my own restless... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 592 pages
...ruins of a plundered town, should become the absolute sovereign of that very empire into which she was led captive, is an incident which fortune and...never before produced in the annals of the world.'* 2 " Before my brother Charles came hither, my thoughts sometimes found refuge from severe studies among... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 556 pages
...ruins of a plundered town, should Iiecome the absolute sovereign of that very empire into which she was led captive, is an incident which fortune and merit have never before produced iu the annals of the world." grace even to nature. There is not an artist now in all the empire that... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - Kievan Rus - 1854 - 534 pages
...sovereign of that very empire into which she was led captive, is an incident which fortune and merit never before produced in the annals of the world. The czar's arms were equally successful in Ingria ; for the Russian galleys on the lake Ladoga obliged the Swedish fleet to retire... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - Kievan Rus - 1854 - 526 pages
...absolute sovereign of that very empire to which she was led captive, is an incident which fortune d merit never before produced in the annals of the world. The czar's arms were equally successful in Ingria ; for the issian galleys on the lake Ladoga obliged the Swedish et to retire to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 580 pages
...become the absolute *«treign of that very empire into which she was led captive, is an incident *oich fortune and merit have never before produced in the annals of the »orld»] LETTER LXIII. THE RISE OR THE DECLINE OF LITERATURE NOT DEPENDENT I MAN, BUT RESULTING FROM... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Russia - 1859 - 534 pages
...-ruins of a plundered town, should become the absolute sovereign of that very empire into which she was led captive, is an incident which fortune and...never before produced in the annals of the world." The city of Petersburg was founded on the 22d of May, 1703, on a desert and marshy spot of ground, in the... | |
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Asiatic kingdoms, than marriages between sovereigns and their subjects ; but that a poor stranger, who had been discovered amid the ruins of a plundered town, should become the absolute sovereign of that very empire into which she was led captive, is... 
