Russia Self-condemned: Secret and Inedited Documents, Connected with Russian History and Diplomacy, of Important Bearing on the Present Crisis in European PoliticsJohn Reynell Morell |
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Page 145 - Ille, cujus immerentes utique, vicaria potestate fungimur in terris, Nos statim ab inito supremi Pontificatus munere nullam sollicitudinis studiique partem praetermisisse, ut tot tantisque quotidie ingravescentibus malis, quoad fieri posset, mederemur. Quis autem impensis hujus modi curis responderit, fructus, facta etiam recentissima satis superque demonstrant.
Page 145 - Noster dolor excreverit , magis vos cogitatione percipitis, quam Nobis liceat verbis explicare. Est vero quod intimae amaritudini summum veluti cumulum addit, quodque Nos, pro apostolici ministerii sanctitate, praeter modum anxios ac sollicitos habet.
Page 145 - Nos sacratissimi officii immemores tantam illorum calamitatem silentio dissinmlasse, atque adeo Catholicae Religionis causam pene deseruisse. Itaque eo jam adducta res est, ut lapis ofFensionis ac petra scandali propemodum evaserimus amplissimae parti dominici gregis, cui regendo divinitus positi sumus ; immo vero universae Ecclesiae super Eum tanquam super firmam petram fundatae, cujus ad Nos, utpote successores, veneranda dignitas promanavit.
Page 172 - Sweden, the Most Serene and Mighty Prince and Lord Stanislaus I, by the grace of God King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, of Reuss, Prussia, Masovia, Kiev, Volhynia, Podolia, Podlachia...
Page 146 - Venerabiles Fratres, futurum sperantes, ut potentissimus Russiarum Imperator et Poloniae Rex illustris pro sua aequitate et excelso quo praestat animo diuturnis Nostris ac subditae sibi Catholicae gentis votis benevola obsecundet. Hac spe fulti non desistamus interim oculos ac manus in montem, und...
Page 146 - Orbi elucescat, nos proprio Apostolatus muneri nullatenus defuisse. Ceterum non concidamus animo, Venerabiles Fratres, futurum sperantes ut potentissimus Russiarum Imperator et Poloniae Rex illustris, pro sua aequitate et excelso quo praestat animo diuturnis Nostris ac subditae sibi Catholicee gentis votis benevole obsecundet.
Page 3 - The mingling of the castles of the Dardanelles with those already garrisoned by Russian troops indicates that the Russians already look upon them...
Page 100 - ... and their connection with the Crown. The aid also which she accorded to the whole nation for her common good she owes likewise, and cannot refuse to the Greek and Nonconformist communities. " Religion, and the duties of friendship and social intercourse, the obligations of treaties, and the honour of their accomplishment, the desire to answer the hopes of a whole nation, enjoin on her Majesty the absolute necessity to continue these efforts, in order to bring about the re-establishment of the...
Page 15 - ... similar circumstances, our own feelings would be with regard to Russia. Let us for this purpose briefly examine the condition of Russian Poland since its first partition. The Empress Catherine, the least tyrannic sovereign who ever ruled in Russia, wrote fiftyone years ago to Repnin, her ambassador at Warsaw: — " This is why I must impress on you to cause the armies now at your disposal in Poland, to act, setting aside all illusions of humanity, (abstraction faite de toutes les illusions de...