Opis: The Life of Peter the Great (Classic Reprint) - Barrow John

Excerpt from The Life of Peter the Great

The author or compiler of the following Biographical Memoir has done little more than bring together and arrange the scattered fragments of histories, lives, anecdotes, and notices, in manuscript or in print, of one of the most extraordinary characters that ever appeared on the great theatre of the world, in any age or country: a being full of contradictions, yet consistent in all that he did; a promoter of literature, arts, and sciences, yet without education himself; the civilizer of his people, "he gave a polish," says Voltaire, "to his nation, and was himself a savage;" he taught his people the art of war, of which he was himself ignorant; from the first glance of a small cock-boat, at the distance of five hundred miles from the nearest sea, he became an expert ship-builder, created a powerful fleet, partly constructed with his own hands, made himself an active and expert sailor, a skilful pilot, a great captain: in short, he changed the manners, the habits, the laws of the people, and the very face of the country.

A modern French writer has given a catalogue of no less than ninety-five authors who have treated of Peter the Great, and concludes it with three &c.'s.

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Nazwa: The Life of Peter the Great (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Barrow John
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330445419
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 394
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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