 | Joseph Priestley - 1780 - 494 страници
...subjects to appeal to Rome. The king of France seizes Avignon. 1772 The first partition of Poland by the empress of Russia, the emperor of Germany, and the king of Prussia. 1773 The pope consents to abolish the order of Jesuits. 1774 The inquisition in Spain deprived of much... | |
 | Thomas Smith - 1818 - 154 страници
...constitution of his country, and compels his subjects to resign their liberties. Poland dismembered by the empress of Russia, the emperor of Germany, and the king of Prussia ; in violation of the most solemn treaties. Source of the Nile discovered by Mr. Bruce. The Magdalen... | |
 | 1820 - 352 страници
...Poland was once a formidable kingdom. In 1773 several of its provinces were dismembered from it by the empress of Russia, the emperor of Germany, and the king of Prussia. A similar act of violence again took place in1793. In 1795, tne unfortunate sovereign, Stanislaus Augustus,... | |
 | Edward Pelham Brenton - 1823 - 562 страници
...suffered the punishment due to their crimes. The kingdom of Poland this year became the theatre of war. The Empress of Russia, the Emperor of Germany, and the King of Prussia, entered, by mutual consent, into that devoted country, laying waste with fire and sword, and taking... | |
 | Edward Pelham Brenton - 1823 - 560 страници
...suffered the punishment due to their crimes. The kingdom of Poland this year became the theatre of war. The Empress of Russia, the Emperor of Germany, and the King of Prussia, entered, by mutual consent, into that devoted country, laying waste with fire and sword, and taking... | |
 | Edward Pelham Brenton - 1837 - 968 страници
...suffered the punishment due to their crime. The kingdom of Poland this year became the theatt of war. The Empress of Russia, the Emperor of Germany, and the King of Prussia, entered, by mutual consent, into that devoted country, laying waste with fire and sword, and taking... | |
 | John Russell (A. M., of Philadelphia.) - 1844 - 250 страници
...expired. SECTION 6. That iniquitous act, the dismemberment of Poland, was perpetrated this year, by the Empress of Russia, the Emperor of Germany, and the King of Prussia. About 1773, very many of the common people, both of Scotland and Ireland, emigrated to America, in... | |
 | G M. Sterne - 1846 - 136 страници
...England, by Henry the Eighth. 661. In 1766; and a second time in 1793, when Poland was divided between the empress of Russia, the emperor of Germany, and the king of Prussia. 662. Various changes in their boundaries ; and Napoleon formed a part of Warsaw into a grand-duchy,... | |
 | Richard Swainson Fisher - 1852 - 780 страници
...dismemberment took place in 1766, and the second in 1792, when the Polish territory was finally divided among the Empress of Russia, the Emperor of Germany, and the King of Prussia. During the wars of the French Revolution, various changes took place in the arrangement and boundaries... | |
 | William O. Blake - 1855 - 1010 страници
...dismemberment took place in 1766, and the second in 1792, when tho Polish territory was finally divided among the empress of Russia, the emperor of Germany, and the king of Prussia. During the wars of the French revolution, various changes took place in the arrangement and boundaries... | |
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Poland this year became the theatre of war. The Empress of Russia, the Emperor of Germany, and the King of Prussia, entered, by mutual consent, into that devoted country, laying waste with fire and sword, and taking to themselves its finest provinces. 
