 | Voltaire - 1762 - 302 pages
...renounced crowns, wearied out with the intolerable load of public affairs; but no man had ever divefted himfelf of the royal character, in order to learn the art of governing better: this was a ftretch of heroifm which was referved for Peter the Great alone. He left Mufcovy in 1698,... | |
 | John Adams - World history - 1795 - 676 pages
...indolence, or of philofophical retirement ; but liidory affords no example of any fovereign, who diverted himfelf of the royal character, in order to learn...force of his genius, and a few converfations with ftrangers, his own rude itatc and the favage condition of his fubjedts. He refolved to become worthy... | |
 | William Russell - Europe - 1839 - 620 pages
...philosophical retirement ; but history affords no example of any sovereign, who had divested himself of the royal character, in order to learn the art of governing better : that was a stretch of magnanimity reserved for Peter the Great. Though almost destitute himself of education,... | |
 | John Frost - History, Modern - 1846 - 386 pages
...philosophical retirement ; but history affords no example of any sovereign who had divested himself of the royal character in order to learn the art of governing better; that was a stretch of magnanimity reserved for Peter the Great. Though almost destitute himself of education,... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons in literature - 1856 - 344 pages
...philosophical retirement ; but history affords no example of any sovereign who had divested himself of the royal character in order to learn the art of governing better : that was a stretch of magnanimity reserved for Peter the Great. Though almost destitute himself of education,... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons in literature - 1856 - 346 pages
...philosophical retirement ; but history affords no example of any sovereign who had divested himself of the royal character in order to learn the art of governing better : that was a stretch of magnanimity reserved for Peter the Great. Though almost destitute himself of education,... | |
 | Voltaire - 1881 - 464 pages
...crowns, wearied out with the intolerable load of public affairs ; but no man had ever divested himself of the royal character, in order to learn the art of governing better : this was a stretck of heroism which was reserved for Peter the Great alone. He left Russia in 1698,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1895 - 466 pages
...crowns, wearied out with the intolerable load of public affairs; but no man had ever divested himself of the royal character, in order to learn the art of governing better: this was a stretch of heroism which was reserved for Peter the Great alone. He left Russia in 1698,... | |
 | Voltaire - 1901 - 652 pages
...out with the intolerable load of public affairs; but no man had ever divested himself Vol. zo— 3 of the royal character, in order to learn the art of governing better: this was a stretch of heroism which was reserved for Peter the Great alone. He left Muscovy in 1698,... | |
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He resolved to be a man, to command men, and to create a new nation. Many princes before him had renounced crowns, wearied out with the intolerable load of public affairs; but no man had ever divested himself of the royal character, in order to learn... 