Russia; Or, The Crisis of Europe, a Poem: With Copious Notes. And an Account of the Russian Soldiers and Cossacks ...J. Carpenter, 1813 - Всего страниц: 88 |
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Стр. 17 - Soldiers ! there is the field •of battle you have so much desired ! henceforth victory depends on you : it is necessary to us : it will give us plenty, good quarters for the winter, and a speedy return to your country. -Behave yourselves as you did at Austerlitz, at Friedland...
Стр. i - It is their government whose eyes ought to be opened by the actual situation of France. Ages may elapse before an opportunity equally favourable again presents itself ; and it would be an abuse of the goodness of Providence not to take advantage of this crisis to reconstruct the great work of the equilibrium of Europe, and thereby to insure public tranquillity and individual happiness.
Стр. 84 - His dignified and majestic look ; his elevated brows, and dark mustachoes ; his tall helmet of black wool, terminated by a crimson sack, with its plume, laced festoon, and white cockade ; his upright posture ; the ease and elegance of his gait ; give him an air of great importance.
Стр. xi - Monarch, to dare assure you that he will willingly agree to overtures, that may be equally equitable for your empire and for the north. If an event so unexpected and so universally desired, could take place, how...
Стр. 31 - Buonaparte, which would contain proposals for peace, in order to cause the cessation of that horrible effusion of blood, which had been shed with so much desperation and barbarity. The Prince replied, that he was not authorised to receive any proposal...
Стр. vi - I can speak with freedom, and it becomes me to do so : nor shall I be deterred by the cavils and the sneers of those who hold as
Стр. x - ... profanators of the temples of God, whose carcasses, without number, now serve as food for dogs and crows. God is mighty in His kindness and in His anger. Let us be guided by the justice of our actions, and the purity of our sentiments, as the only path which leads to Him. Let us proceed to the temple of His sanctity, and there, crowned with His hand, thank Him for the benefit...
Стр. 4 - Sweden the means of recruiting her strength, exhausted by a destructive war, would not be of long duration. The Emperor Napoleon had laid down for subjugated Europe a peremptory rule, that he would acknowledge as friends only, the enemies of Britain ; that neutrality, formerly the bulwark of the weaker states, amidst the contests of the most powerful, no longer had any real meaning ; and that all the combinations of policy, every feeling of dignity, must disappear before the omnipotence of arms,...
Стр. 32 - Moscow how he could, since he came thither without being invited ; while, on our side, it became our 95 duty to do him as much mischief as possible : that when he proclaimed the campaign terminated at Moscow, the Russians viewed it as only commencing ; if he did not know this already, he should soon be taught it by experience. Lauriston. — " Since, then, there is no hope of peace, it will doubtless be necessary to march ; but in departing, it will again be necessary to shed the blood of men who...
Стр. 71 - Arsinoeff,* of the imperial guards) was supposed dead, the ball of the musquet having entered just above the throat. He was stripped, and the body abandoned on the frozen and freezing snow. Towards night, after several hours torpor, sense returned ; and whilst he was contemplating the horror of the past and present scene...