God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 1. The Origins to 1795
262 ANARCHIA Armed conflict ensued. After the Battle of Janowiec, the confederates announced the king's dethronement, and in the ...
THE NOBLE DEMOCRACY 263 to, together with the Cossacks under Colonel Czop... Not an hour and a half passed before they had cut o ...
264 ANARCHIA Muscovy received the largest single prize which permitted her transformation into the great Russian Empire. For thi ...
THE NOBLE DEMOCRACY 265 not be written into the Crown Register. All the work of the session was declared null and void. It was a ...
266 ANARCHIA Turkish War. At the Sejm of Grodno of 1793, the King was persuaded to retract the offending reforms, and then to si ...
THE NOBLE DEMOCRACY 267 cases affecting his particular domain. Hence, there were Chancellor's courts; Marshal's courts; Hetman's ...
268 ANARCHIA the Roses, as described in the Paston Letters, when lesser people lived in fear, and only the barons were safe. Amo ...
THE NOBLE DEMOCRACY 269 noble squadrons of Red Ruthenia were withheld from the campaign against the Swedes because they were sti ...
270 ANARCHIA of the heroes of the Republic. His career was symptomatic of the social condi- tions on which he thrived. He was a ...
THE NOBLE DEMOCRACY 271 wickedness did not impress his contemporaries unduly. On the contrary, he was considered by many to be a ...
(^272) ANARCHIA For political theorists, the Republic of Poland-Lithuania provided an inex- haustible fund of curiosities. Its i ...
THE NOBLE DEMOCRACY 273 Modrzewski was surrounded by a whole generation which shared his critical temper. Mikolaj Rey (1505—69) ...
274 ANARCH1A to judge us ... as other nations have.' 'There are', he said, 'two leading members in the human body, the head and ...
THE NOBLE DEMOCRACY 275 Pan Bog nas ma jak blaznow. I to prawdy blisko, Ze miedzy ludzmi Polak jest Boze igrzysko.* The trouble ...
276 ANARCHIA fortress of Wolmar. His wife, his son, and his mother, held by Ivan as hostages to his good behaviour, were put to ...
THE NOBLE DEMOCRACY 277 Vatican's Office for the Propagation of the Faith, were based on personal and extremely shrewd observati ...
278 ANARCHIA danger not so much for the king as for the electors themselves, and recommended that the king's successor should be ...
THE NOBLE DEMOCRACY 279 tutional monarchy, which would display 'the legitimate power of the prince over the people', he likened ...
280 ANARCH1A Chmielowski (1700-63), whose Nowe Ateny albo Akademia wszelkiej scjencji pelna (The New Athens or an Academy full o ...
THE NOBLE DEMOCRACY 281 ... Not only has the Empress of Russia established universal toleration in her own vast realms, but she ...
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