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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: obliged to give way for the moment, but our right proved stronger than the paw.ex which had curbed it. We are convinced that also in this century it will be strong enough to outlive jour aggression. The inhabitants of a country which for seven hundred years has lived under German influence, cannot in a few years be transformed into Russians; you may cripple- the strength of an aged tree, you may- cut it down, but you cannot transplant it like a sapling, nor compel it to produce another kind of fruit by compulsory grafting.' The rage which Schirren's pamphlet provoked ia the Moscow press, compelled the Government to dismiss him from the professorship of history in Dorpat, but his answer has never been refuted. The respectful petition which the Diet of Livland has lately addressed to the Emperor, enumerating the violations of the constitution and praying for its re-establishment, has received a negative answer. The country is obliged to suffer in silence, and bide its time, but no pressure will extort from it a voluntary abandonment of its right . The people of the Baltic provinces are confident that the experiment of Russifying by compulsion five different nationalities must in the long run prove a disastrous failure and recoil on its authors. They maintain that their cause is that of Western civilisation, against Russian barbarism, to which the theories- of Herzen and. Katkoff have only given a superficial varnish, and they answer to every new aggression of the Moscow fanatics, ' You may oppress us, but ' you win not subdue us.' Art. III.?The Chief Victories of the Emperor Charles V. designed By Martin Heemskerck in M.D.L V, and now illustrated taith Portraits, Prints, and Notes. By Sir William Stirling Maxtfell, Bart. London and Edinburgh. Privately printed for the Edit...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217580809 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217580807 |
| Weight | 1.57 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.09 In |
| List Price | $33.86 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 488 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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