Conversations on the history of Russia

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Page 231 - To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 78 - Where sighs and groans and shrieks that rend the air, Are made, not mark'd ; where violent sorrow seems A modern ecstasy : the dead man's knell Is there scarce ask'd for who ; and good men's lives Expire before the flowers in their caps, Dying or ere they sicken.
Page 115 - He that ruleth his spirit, is better than he that taketh a city,
Page 66 - I humbly beseech Thee for Thy holy Catholic Church, fill it with all truth, in all truth with all peace. Where it is corrupt, purge it ; where it is in error, direct it ; where it is superstitious, rectify it ; where anything is amiss, reform it ; where it is right, strengthen and confirm it ; where it is in want, furnish it ; where it is divided and rent asunder, make up the breaches of it ; O Thou Holy One of Israel.
Page 83 - Shall we receive good at the hand of the Lord, and shall we not receive evil?
Page 229 - There, was the envoy brought into her presence, and casting down his countenance, fell prostrate before her, then rising back with his face still towards her, (the lady with the rest admiring at his strange salutation), he said, by his interpreter, ' it sufficed him to behold the angelic presence of her who, he hoped, would be his master's spouse and empress ! ' " The alliance did not, however, take place, and the lady died unmarried.
Page 54 - The night has been unruly : where we lay Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say, Lamentings heard i' the air; strange screams of death And prophesying, with accents terrible, Of dire combustion and confused events New hatched to the woeful time : the obscure bird Clamoured the livelong night : some say, the earth Was feverous and did shake.
Page 194 - Karanuin, i, p. 92. dread and feare through all his dominions, so that I thinke no prince in Christendome is more feared of his owne then he is, nor yet better beloued.
Page 61 - Follow him into the beautiful temple of the Virgin of Kasan, and you find him on his knees, repeating his prayers after the priest, with a fluency which nothing can arrest, and a devotion which nothing can distract. Pass him, or jostle him as you may, he is too deeply engaged with his pious work to take the least notice of you. It is always painful to be present, an unconcerned spectator, where a religious service is going forward in which the heart cannot join. We feel as if intruding on that which...
Page 216 - Rejoice. 0 young man. in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth; walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

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