History of Russia, from the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rurik, to the Accession of Catharine the Second, Volum 1A. Strahan, 1800 |
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Side 199 - To afk them of the emperor was a fort of homage, at the very idea of which his haughty foul revolted. He conceived a project worthy of his times, of his country, or perhaps only of himfelf : it was to commence a war againft Greece, and by force of arms to extort inftru&ion, priefts, and the rite of baptifm.
Side 199 - If we give credit to one chronicle, he put up this prayer: " O God, grant me thy help to take this town, that I may carry from it Christians and priests to instruct me and my people, and convey the true religion into my dominions!
Side 482 - ... actuated by a spring. This bridge is the fashionable walk, and is an agreeable busy scene, when crowded with people, and lined on each side with ships taking in or unloading their cargoes. In the beginning of winter, when the frost sets in, the bridge is taken to pieces, and removed; the piles, remaining in the water, are forced up by the ice, and conveyed to land : the whole is again laid down on the melting of the ice in the spring. " General Brown, the Governor of Riga, is a native of Ireland,...
Side 161 - It is compofed of fulpbur, naphtha, pitch, gum, and bitumen; and is only extinguifhable by vinegar mixed with faod and urine, or by raw hides. Its motion or tendency is faid to be contrary to that of natural fire, and always follows the direction in which it is thrown, whether it be downwards, Mewife, or otherwise.
Side 196 - ... enfolded in mutual embraces. Thus it was that Vladimir thought to honour the gods. The zealous Olga had never been able to induce her son to embrace. . . Christianity, Christianity, and her grandson Vladimir was of all the Russian princes the most bigoted to idolatry.
Side 201 - Vladimir was baptised in 988, and married Anna, the sister of the Grecian sovereign, it was as much his intention by this match to acquire a claim upon the Greek empire, as by his baptism to have pretensions to the kingdom of heaven.
Side 203 - Eussia underwent any persecutions, and yet it soon became Christian : of such force was the example of the sovereign. At Kief he one day issued a proclamation ordering all the inhabitants to repair the next morning to the banks of the river to be baptised ; which they joyfully obeyed. " If it be not good to be baptised," said they, "the prince and the boyars would never submit to it.
Side 212 - Solomon ? f 2 lie he felt uneafy at fentencing one highway robber to death, of whom there were many at that time ; and, as we read in the chronicles, exclaimed with emotion on fuch an occafion^ " What am I that I mould condemn a fellow...
Side 202 - Perune was the greatest of deities to the idolatrous Russians, it was him that Vladimir, after his conversion, resolved to treat with the greatest ignominy. He had him tied to the tail of a horse, dragged to the...
Side 197 - Greek, whom the chronicles call a philosopher, and yet, perhaps, he was not one. If he did not induce Vladimir to embrace the Greek ritual, at least he succeeded in making him think favourably of it, and returned to his country loaded with presents.