The Works of M. de Voltaire: History of the Russian Empire under Peter the GreatJ. Newbery, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, S. Crowder, T. Davies, J. Coote, G. Kearsley, and B. Collins, at Salisbury., 1763 |
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Page 82 - Peter, young as he was, went to work in a much abler manner than Osman. He began with forming, at his...
Page 171 - As foon as the army had furmounted thefe obflacles within fight of the Ruffians, they drew up in order of battle, and attacked the enemies entrenchments feven different times, and it was not till the feventh attack that the Ruffians gave way. By the accounts of their own hiftorians, the Swedes took but 12 field-pieces, and 24 mortars. It was therefore evident, that the czar had at length fucceeded in .disciplining his troops, and this victory of Holozin, while it covered Charles XII.
Page 194 - Prussia (Oct. 7.): in which he was resolved to recover from Charles all the conquests of Gustavus Adolphus. Peter revived the ancient pretensions of the czars to Livonia, Ingria, Carelia, and part of Finland ; Denmark laid claim to Scania, and the king of Prussia to Pomerania. Thus had Charles XII. by his unsuccessful valour, shook the noble edifice that had been erected by the prosperous bravery of his ancestor Gustavus Adolphus. The Polish...
Page 117 - This oath is much ftronger than that of the fupremacy in England. The Ruffian monarch was not indeed one of. the fathers of the fynod...
Page 90 - Dantzic, had the direction of the artillery, under the command of general Schein ; for as yet they had none but foreign officers belonging to the train, and none but foreign engineers and pilots. This Jacob had been condemned to the bastinade, or knout, by Schein, the Russian general.
Page 198 - There are, says she, in one of her dispatches to him, insuperable difficulties, with respect to the ancient and fundamental laws of the government of our people ; which we fear do not permit sO severe and rigorous a sentence to be given, as your imperial majesty at first seemed to expect in this case ; and we persuade...
Page 94 - Gordons and Schein, admiral Le Fort, and the other general officers, all took the precedence of their monarch in this procession, who declared he had no rank in the army, being desirous to convince the nobility, by his example, that the only way to acquire military preferment, was to deserve it.* This triumphal entry seemed somewhat a-kin to those of the ancient Romans, in which the conquerors were wont to expose...