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By such men different portions of the northern continent of America were discovered; the fame of these new lands, their wonderful productiveness and admirable climate, soon spread amongst their countrymen, and from time to time various ships left the English ports with small bands of adventurers, who made what were termed settlements in the country of these savages not by mercilessly massacring them as the Spaniards had done in the south, and then plundering them of all they possessed, but by purchasing certain districts or pieces of land from the original occupants, which they peacefully cultivated; as their numbers increased, they multiplied their habitations, and obtained by barter of the savages fresh accessions of territory."
Such was the curse of a poet on his former patron, now an object of misery a return for "placing him below Metastasio!" The French Revolution affords illustrations of the worst human passions. When the wretched COLLOT D'HERBOIS was tossed up in the storm to the summit of power, a monstrous imagination seized him; he projected razing the city of Lyons and massacring its inhabitants.
They would never all have their sticks handy if they hadn't prepared for it." "There are some long knives in that cupboard," the man said, "and there is another pistol my brother Antonio has got. He is sick in bed." Just at this moment the door opened and another Italian came in in trousers and shirt. "What is it, Joseph?" "The natives have risen and are massacring all the Europeans."
Nevertheless these severities did not stifle the insurrection; the Tartars, in banditti bands, even crossing the Volga, pillaging, massacring and burning with savage cruelty. For five years the war raged in Kezan, with every accompaniment of ferocity and misery. The country was devastated and almost depopulated. Hardly a chief of note was left alive. The horrors of war then ceased.
The great general marched steadily north, taking the boroughs one by one, storming, massacring young and old, burning, sometimes, whole towns, and leaving, as he went on, a new portent, a Norman donjon till then all but unseen in England as a place of safety for his garrisons. Their struggle had only helped to tighten their bonds; and what wonder?
The French emissaries from the province of Louisiana had exercised their arts of insinuation with such success among the Cherokees a numerous and powerful nation of Indians settled on the confines of Virginia and Carolina that they had infringed the peace with the English towards the latter end of the last year, and begun hostilities by plundering, massacring, and scalping several British subjects of the more southern provinces.
Peter's unlimited power Extent of his dominions Character His wishes in respect to his dominion Embassy to China Siberia Inhospitable climate The exiles Western civilization Ship-building The Dutch ship-yards Saardam The barge at the country palace The emperor's first vessels Sham-fights Azof Naval operations against Azof Treachery of the artilleryman Defeat New attempt The Turkish fleet taken Fall of Azof Fame of the emperor His plans for building a fleet Foreign workmen Penalties His arbitrary proceedings He sends the young nobility abroad Opposition Sullen mood of mind National prejudices offended The opposition party Arguments of the disaffected Religious feelings of the people The patriarch An impious scheme Plan of the conspirators Fires Dread of them in Moscow Modern cities Plan for massacring the foreigners The day The plot revealed Measures taken by Peter Torture Punishment of the conspirators The column in the market-place
Ko-ko turned about and laughed to scorn the proposal, and putting forth his right foot from the lodge first, an observance in which he had great hopes, he started for the lodge of the wicked father. Ko-ko ran very fast, as if he feared he should lose the chance of massacring any member of the wicked family, until he came in sight of the lodge hanging upon the tree.
By sowing dissensions among her own children, by inflaming party against party, by watching with care the oscillations of France so than none of the great divisions should obtain preponderance by alternately caressing and massacring the Huguenots, by cajoling or confronting Philip, by keeping, as she boasted, a spy in every family that possessed the annual income of two thousand livres, by making herself the head of an organized system of harlotry, by which the soldiers and politicians of France were inveigled, their secrets faithfully revealed to her by her well-disciplined maids of honour, by surrounding her unfortunate sons with temptation from earliest youth, and plunging them by cold calculation into deepest debauchery, that their enervated faculties might be ever forced to rely in political affairs on the maternal counsel, and to abandon the administration to the maternal will; such were the arts by which Catharine had maintained her influence, and a great country been governed for a generation Machiavellian state-craft blended with the more simple wiles of a procuress.
The municipality of Paris had been the iniquitous drudges of the Jacobin party in the legislative assembly they were made the instruments of massacring the prisoners,* of dethroning and executing the king, and successively of destroying the Brissotine faction, * filling the prisons with all who were obnoxious to the republicans, and of involving a repentant nation in the irremidiable guilt of the Queen's death. *
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