Life and Times of Alexander I, Emperor of All the Russias, Volume 2Tinsley Brothers, 1875 - Russia |
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Life and Times of Alexander I.: Emperor of All the Russians, Volume 1 F R Grahame No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 254 - Your Majesty invokes your rights to the friendship of the King ! Permit me to remind you, Sire, of the little value your Majesty attached to it, at times when a reciprocity of sentiment would have been very useful to Sweden. When the King, after having lost Finland, wrote to your Majesty to beg you to preserve for Sweden the Isles of Aland, you replied to him, ' apply to the Emperor Alexander — he is great and generous...
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Page 30 - His majesty announced to the king, that it was with a view to obtain for him honourable conditions. But the British ministry, apparently faithful to that plan which was to loosen and break the bonds which had connected Russia and England, rejected the mediation. The peace between Russia and France was to prepare a general peace.
Page 309 - ... could be granted to such an execrable character. This was followed by an order that he should be sent to Siberia, whilst the other prisoners were sent to a much less northern destination, Vandamme replied, with great sang...
Page 61 - We unite in entreating your majesty to listen to the voice of humanity, silencing that of the passions ; to seek, with the intention of arriving at that object, to conciliate all interests, and by that means to preserve all the powers which exist, and to insure the happiness of Europe, and of this generation, at the head of which Providence has placed us.
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Page 165 - Church! you have in all circumstances by your intercession called down upon our empire the Divine protection! Russian people! intrepid posterity of Slavonians! it is not the first time that you have plucked out the teeth from the head of the lion, who sprung on you as upon a prey, and met his own destruction! Unite yourselves! carry the cross in your hearts and the sword in your hands, and human force never can prevail against you. I...
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