Peter the GreatHarper & Bros., 1887 - 368 עמודים |
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עמוד 331 - If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them...
עמוד 332 - ... then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; and they shall say unto the elders of his city, " This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice ; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
עמוד 331 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pluck it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
עמוד 141 - After I had seen him often, and had conversed much with him, I could not but adore the depth of the providence of God, that had raised up such a furious man to so absolute an authority over so great a part of the world.
עמוד 271 - ... and the rearadmiral of the galleys being the bridegroom's fathers, and the Empress Dowager, with the vice-admiral's lady, were the bride's mothers. The bridesmaids were two of the Empress Catherine's own daughters, one above five, and the other three years old. The wedding was performed privately, at seven o'clock in the morning, in a little chapel belonging to Prince...
עמוד 180 - ... more prosperous than from 1801 to 1810. The mission suffered a severe loss in 1812, in the death of Hamel. He had spent thirty-six years in Sz'chuen, most of the time as superior of the little college at Loyang kiu on the borders of that province. He had educated twenty-seven priests for the mission, and so great was the veneration in which he was held by the converts, that they insisted on giving him a public funeral, and erecting a monument to his memory. This was done without the knowledge...
עמוד 23 - Emperor, and killed them on the spot. Then they took a number of nobles of high rank, and officers of state, who were supposed to be the leaders of the party in favor of Peter, and the instigators of the murder of Theodore, and, dragging them out into the public squares, slew them without mercy. Some they cut to pieces. Others they threw down from the wall of the imperial palace upon the soldiers' pikes below, which the men held up for the purpose of receiving them.
עמוד 23 - ... receiving them. Peter was at this time with his mother in the palace. Natalia was exceedingly alarmed, not for herself, but for her son. As soon as the revolution broke out she made her escape from the palace, and set out, with Peter in her arms, to fly to a celebrated family retreat of the Emperor's, called the Monastery of the Trinity. This monastery was a sort of country palace of the Czar's, which, besides being a pleasant rural retreat, was also, from its religious character, a sanctuary...
עמוד 21 - Guards, on her side by means of flattery of the officers and misrepresentation, and fomented an insurrection. The commander-in-chief of the Guards was an officer named Couvansky. He readily acceded to her proposals, and, in conjunction with him, she planned and organized a revolution. In order to exasperate the people and the Guards, and excite them to the proper pitch of violence, Sophia and Couvansky spread a report that the late emperor had not died a natural death, but had been poisoned. This...
עמוד 287 - I spare not my own life for the good of my country, and the happiness of my people, why should I spare yours, if you are undeserving of it?