Slavonic Europe: A Political History of Poland and Russia from 1447 to 1796 |
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Page 400 - It is the forcible suppression of a national movement of reform, the hurling back into the abyss of anarchy and corruption of a people who, by incredible efforts and sacrifices, had struggled back to liberty and order, which makes this great political crime so wholly infamous. Yet here again the methods of the Russian Empress were less vile than those of the Prussian King. Catherine openly took the risks of a bandit who attacks an enemy against whom he has a grudge ; Frederick William II.
Page 61 - That glorious distinction belonged from the end of the fourteenth to the end of the fifteenth century to Hungary, and to Hungary alone.
Page 92 - Warsaw (January 28, 1573), which granted absolute religious liberty to all non-Catholic denominations (" Dissidentes de Religione," as they now began to be called) without exception, thus exhibiting a far more liberal intention than the Germans had manifested in the Religious Peace of Augsburg, eighteen years before. Nevertheless, the Warsaw Compact was eventually vitiated by the clauses which reserved to every 86 The meeting of the Election Diet [1573 master, spiritual or secular, the right " to...
Page 77 - Poland flourished exceedingly. Presently reformers of every shade of opinion, even those who were tolerated nowhere else, poured into Poland, which speedily became the battle-ground of all the sects of Europe. Soon the Protestants became numerous enough to form ecclesiastical districts of their own. The first Calvinist synod in Poland was held at Pinczow in 1550. The Bohemian Brethren, expelled from their own country, ultimately coalesced with the Calvinist at the synod of Kozminek (Aug. 1555).....
Page 349 - That very same evening, Elizabeth, without any help from without, overthrew the existing government in a couple of hours, a circumstance carefully to be borne in mind, as many historians, rashly relying on' certain ex-post-facto statements by La Chetardie, have credited that diplomatist with a leading part in the revolution which placed the daughter of Peter the Great on the Russian throne. As a matter of fact La Chetardie, beyond lending the Tsarevna 2,000 ducats instead of the 15,000 she demanded...