| 1836 - 428 pages
...remember that 1 have never laid any restraint upon you. Was I obliged to leave you at liberty to choose your way of life ? Had I not the power in my own hands...conform to my will ? I had only to command, and make myself obeyed." The viceroy of Naples found it no difficult matter to persuade the czarowitz to return... | |
| François Marie Arouet de Voltaire - 1836 - 420 pages
...remember that I have never laid any restraint upon you. Was I obliged to leave you at liberty to choose your way of life ? Had I not the power in my own hands to oblige you to conform to my will 1 1 had only to command, and make myself obeyed.' The viceroy of Naples found it no difficult matter... | |
| Voltaire - 1818 - 420 pages
...never laid any restraint upon you. Was I obliged to leave you at liberty to choose your way of lifef Had I not the power in my own hands to oblige you...conform to my will ? I had only to command, and make myself obeyed.' The viceroy of Naples found it no difficult matter to persuade the czarowitz to return... | |
| Peter Burke - Law - 1852 - 410 pages
...remember that I have never laid any restraint upon you. Was I obliged to leave you at liberty to choose your way of life ? Had I not the power in my own hands...conform to my will ? I had only to command, and make myself obeyed." The viceroy of Naples found it no difficult matter to persuade the czarowitz to return... | |
| Sarah Hopkins Bradford - Kings and rulers - 1858 - 262 pages
...remember that I have never laid any restraint upon you. Was I obliged to leave you at liberty to choose your way of life ? Had I not the power in my own hands...conform to my will ? I had only to command and make myself obeyed." Persuasions, promises, and threats, were employed for a long time by the two envoys... | |
| Peter Burke - Law - 1859 - 332 pages
...remember that I have never laid any restraint upon you. Was I obliged to leave you at liberty to choose your way of life ? Had I not the power in my own hands to oblige you to conform to my will ? I had onlyto command, and make myself obeyed." The viceroy of Naples found it no difficult matter to persuade... | |
| sir John Barrow (bart.) - 1883 - 454 pages
...remember that I have never laid any restraint upon you. Was I obliged to leave you at liberty to choose your way of life? Had I not the power in my own hands...conform to my will ? I had only to command, and make myself obeyed." APPENDIX E. The prince's renunciation was couched in the following terms : — " I,... | |
| Voltaire, Tobias Smollett - 1904 - 334 pages
...remember that I have never laid any restraint upon you. Was I obliged to leave you at liberty to choose your way of life? Had I not the power in my own hands...conform to my will ? I had only to command, and make myself obeyed." The viceroy of Naples found it no difficult matter to persuade the czarevitch to return... | |
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