The Case of Russia: A Composite ViewFox, Duffield, 1905 - 387 pages |
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The Case of Russia, a Composite View Alfred Rambaud,Peter Roberts,Vladimir Gregorievitch Simkhovitch No preview available - 2019 |
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Page 303 - The archers have sorely grieved him and shot at him and hated him. But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob.
Page 323 - BOWED by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world. Who made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox?
Page 330 - Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion : he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
Page 333 - ... committed terrible ravages in Prussia under Todleben, a German in the service of the Empress. They entered and pillaged Berlin ; the arsenal was destroyed and a contribution levied upon the city. The king on hearing of the savage way in which Todleben was conducting the war uttered the memorable words : " We have to do with barbarians who are digging the grave of humanity.
Page 58 - The opinions of Prince Oukhtomski seem to reveal a new element in Russian policy. Formerly the Russians were indignant over Prince Bismarck's reported observation that "Russia has nothing to do in the West. Her mission is in Asia ; there she represents civilization.
Page 106 - ... Russian conquerors of the Ottomans had lost theirs. Russia set up against Japan the principle of the integrity of the Chinese Empire in exactly the same way that the Powers had imposed upon her the principle of the preservation of the Turkish Empire. The Treaty of Tokyo, in 1895, modified the Treaty of Shimonosaki as completely as had the Treaty of Berlin modified that of San Stefano in 1878. Just as Russia, in 1878, had had the mortification of seeing her political foes, Austria and England,...
Page 78 - The agreement with Persia and the conquest of Turkestan brought Russia's power to the frontier of Afghanistan, which the English regard as the protecting wall of their Indian Empire. At every forward movement of the Russians, they protested or endeavored to secure guarantees against a new advance or tried to gain for themselves some new strategic point that would strengthen their position. They were not always successful. After the first siege of Herat by the Persians, in 1840, the English made the...
Page 308 - ... and torn by the thistles, the Russian prisoners trudge along through an unknown country, and weeping say to one another : ' I am from such a town, and I from such a village.
Page 116 - We have followed Russia in all the directions that her policy of expansion has carried her. It now remains for us to study the means that she has employed, especially in what concerns her expansion in the East. The essential characteristic that distinguishes her Oriental from her Western policy is, that, while nearly all the progress she has made in Europe has been either the cause or the result of bloody wars like those of the Czars of Moscow against Poland, of Peter the Great against Charles XII.,...
Page 305 - Servians emigrated to Russia and were established in the southern governments. Russia lost nothing, but also gained nothing, in spite of all her victories and sacrifices. Each expedition had cost her large sums and many thousands of men. The soldiers perished not so much by the sword...