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The Scientific Magazine, And Freemasons' Repository, For January 1797.
THE SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE , AND FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY , FOR JANUARY 1797 .
" BPJEF MEMOIRS PF HER LATE IMPERIAL MAJESTY , CATHARINE II ,
jf ~]} F all the sovereigns who have graced tlie different thrones of ^ - ^ Europe , for some centuries past , none have challenged more- , general adriiiration , both for greatness of mind and splendour of atchievement , than Catharine the Second . Convinced , therefore ; of the magnitude of tlie object we have to consider , we enter into the enof
quiry Her character , and review of her actions , with all that circumspection which it seems so strongly to require . , SOPHIA AUGUSTA ( the maiden name of the empress ) was born in the court of Anhalt Zerbst , in the year 1729 ; and in 1 74 J , when only sixteen years of age , after being re-baptized according to the rites of the Greek church by tlie name of CATHARINE ALEXIEFSAwas espoused
, to Peter Feodoroviteh , great duke of Russia . Eveii in her infancy , Citharine is said to have g iven promise of those vast talents which have since so much astonished mankind ; but the narrow confines of a petty German court afforded 110 room for their ' display . Placed , however , by her marriage , in a . more exalted stationshe soon afforded the most signal proofs of the vigour of heiv
, riiind and comprehension of her intellect . During the lirst years of her marriage , tlie most perfect union subsisted between her and the great duke , which was at length succeeded by mutual aversion ah % disgust . Peter , whose mind had been warped by a bad education ;' and who had been purposely kept ignorant of political affairs , was held by the then empress Elizabeth in a state of complete dependence : a
prey to idleness , and without the power of amusing himself with the rational occupations of- literature , he gave himself up to the most VOL . VIII , A
EMPRESS AND AUTOCRATRIX OF ALL THE EUSSIAS , & C WITH A PORTRAIT . . .
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The Scientific Magazine, And Freemasons' Repository, For January 1797.
THE SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE , AND FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY , FOR JANUARY 1797 .
" BPJEF MEMOIRS PF HER LATE IMPERIAL MAJESTY , CATHARINE II ,
jf ~]} F all the sovereigns who have graced tlie different thrones of ^ - ^ Europe , for some centuries past , none have challenged more- , general adriiiration , both for greatness of mind and splendour of atchievement , than Catharine the Second . Convinced , therefore ; of the magnitude of tlie object we have to consider , we enter into the enof
quiry Her character , and review of her actions , with all that circumspection which it seems so strongly to require . , SOPHIA AUGUSTA ( the maiden name of the empress ) was born in the court of Anhalt Zerbst , in the year 1729 ; and in 1 74 J , when only sixteen years of age , after being re-baptized according to the rites of the Greek church by tlie name of CATHARINE ALEXIEFSAwas espoused
, to Peter Feodoroviteh , great duke of Russia . Eveii in her infancy , Citharine is said to have g iven promise of those vast talents which have since so much astonished mankind ; but the narrow confines of a petty German court afforded 110 room for their ' display . Placed , however , by her marriage , in a . more exalted stationshe soon afforded the most signal proofs of the vigour of heiv
, riiind and comprehension of her intellect . During the lirst years of her marriage , tlie most perfect union subsisted between her and the great duke , which was at length succeeded by mutual aversion ah % disgust . Peter , whose mind had been warped by a bad education ;' and who had been purposely kept ignorant of political affairs , was held by the then empress Elizabeth in a state of complete dependence : a
prey to idleness , and without the power of amusing himself with the rational occupations of- literature , he gave himself up to the most VOL . VIII , A
EMPRESS AND AUTOCRATRIX OF ALL THE EUSSIAS , & C WITH A PORTRAIT . . .